Vasili Sofronov was a Russian actor of the Bolshoi Drama Teatre in Petrograd - Leningrad - St. Petersburg. He was born Vasili Yakovlevich Sofronov on January 30, 1884, in Russia. In 1910 he made his stage acting debut in St. Petersburg. In 1918 he was among the founding members of the Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in Petrograd (now St.