Mikhail Khrabrov was a Russian character actor known as Platon Karataev in Guerre et paix (1965).He was born Mikhail Sergeevich Khrabrov, in 1924, in Russia. During the Second World War, he served in the Red Army. From the 60s through the 90s Khrabrov was a permanent member of the troupe at the Theatre of Komissarzhevskoi in St. Petersburg. There his stage partners were such actors as Galina Korotkevich, Tamara Abrosimova, Natalya Chetverikova, Natalya Danilova, Valentina Panina, Tatiana Samarina, Elena Simonova, Aleksandr Galibin, Yefim Kamenetsky, Ivan Krasko, Georgiy Korolchuk, Stanislav Landgraf, Vladimir Osobik, Boris Sokolov, Pyotr Shelokhonov, and other notable Russian actors. Mikhail Khrabrov was designated People's Actor of Russia and was awarded for his works on stage and in film. Over the course of his acting career he played over 100 roles on stage, and also appeared in over 20 film and on television productions. Mikhail Khrabrov made memorable readings of Russian classic literature on Leningrad/St. Petersburg radio shows. He died in 2003 and was laid to rest in Volkovskoe Cemetery, in St. Petersburg, Russia.