title: Avangard Leontiev
text: # Avangard Leontiev
  
  Avangard Nikolaevich Leontiev (Russian: Аванга́рд Никола́евич Лео́нтьев; born February 27, 1947, in Moscow) is a Soviet and Russian theater and film actor, teacher, professor. People's Artist of the Russian Federation (1995). Laureate of the State Prize of the Russian Federation (1995).
  
  ## Selected filmography
  
  * Train Stop – Two Minutes (1972) as viewer
  * Little Tragedies (1979) as Solomon
  * A Few Days from the Life of I. I. Oblomov (1980) as Alexeyev
  * Alone and Unarmed (1984) as photographer
  * The Tale of Tsar Saltan (1984) as narrator
  * Dark Eyes (1987) as official in St. Petersburg
  * The Parrot Speaking Yiddish (1990) as Zaremba
  * Burnt by the Sun (1994) as Chauffeur
  * The Barber of Siberia (1998) as Andrei's uncle
  * Silver Lily of the Valley (2000) as episode
  * Yesenin (2005) as Anatoly Lunacharsky
  * Adjutants of Love (2005) as Paul I of Russia
  * Sunstroke (2014) as prestidigitator
  * The Age of Pioneers (2017) as Yuri Levitan
  * Van Goghs (2018) as Veniamin
  