What is Yuri Lyubimov?
{{Infobox person | name = Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov<br><small>Юрий Петрович Любимов</small> | image = Yuriy Lyubimov.jpg | caption = | birthname = | birth_date = {{Birth date|1917|9|30|df=yes}} | birth_place = [[Yaroslavl]], [[Russian Provisional Government|Russian Republic]] | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2014|10|05|1917|09|30}} | death_place = [[Moscow]], Russia | othername = | occupation = [[Stage actor]], [[theatre director]] | years_active = 1935–2014 | spouse = Katalin Lyubimova | domesticpartner = | website = http://www.lyubimov.info }} '''Yuri Petrovich Lyubimov''' (September 30, 1917 – October 5, 2014<ref>[http://rt.com/news/193316-theater-legend-lyubimob-dies/ Russian theater legend Yury Lyubimov dies at 97]</ref>) was an [[USSR|Soviet]] and [[Russia]]n actor and director, founder of the internationally-renowned<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/monitoring/media_reports/698349.stm Hat hunted off head, BBC, 2000]</ref> [[Taganka Theatre]]. He is one of the leading names in the Russian theatre world.<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13929106 Russian playwright Yuri Lyubimov quits theatre company, BBC, 27 June 2011]</ref> After service in the Soviet Army during the [[World War II]], Lyubimov joined the [[Vakhtangov Theatre]]. In 1953, he received the ''USSR State Prize''. Lyubimov started teaching in 1963 and formed the Taganka Theatre the following year. Under Lyubimov, the theatre became the most popular in [[Moscow]], with [[Vladimir Vysotsky]] and Alla Demidova as the leading actors. After Vysotsky's death in 1980, all of Lyubimov's productions were banned by the Communist authorities. In 1984, he was stripped of Soviet citizenship. Thereupon Lyubimov worked abroad before returning to the Taganka Theatre in 1989. While in the West he maintained a busy directing career. In the US he directed ''Cr