Biography

Mikhail Shapiro was born on April 2, 1908 in Yekaterinoslav, Yekaterinoslav uyezd, Yekaterinoslav Governorate, Russian Empire [now Dnipropetrovsk, Dnipropetrovsk Oblast, Ukraine]. He was a director and writer, known for Katerina Izmailova (1967), Slippers (1945) and Kain XVIII (1963). He died on October 26, 1971 in Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR [now St. Petersburg, Russia].