Nikolai Viktorovich Baskov (Born on October 15, 1976 in Moscow) - Russian actor. known for his roles in "The Snow Queen" (2003), "Cinderella" (2002), "The Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors" (2007), "The New Adventures of Aladdin" (2011). Since 1998, he has been a soloist at the Novosibirsk Opera and Ballet Theater. In the same year, he became the winner of the First Prize of the All-Russian Competition of Young Opera Singers. In 1999, he became an intern at the Bolshoi Theatre and received an offer to perform the role of Lensky in Pyotr Tchaikovsky's opera Eugene Onegin. On June 19, 1999, his first performance took place.