Born in 1950 in Moscow, Itskov graduated from the Far Eastern Arts Institute in Vladivostok. From 1971 through 1979 he performed at the Okhlopkov Drama Theater in Irkutsk. He then moved to another Siberian city, Omsk, where he played major roles at the Academy Drama Theater. Since moving to St. Petersburg in 2001, he has performed at the Satire Theater on Vassilyevsky Island, starring in Shakespeare’s King Lear, Gogol’s Christmas Eve, Beaumarchais’s The Marriage of Figaro, and other productions. Itskov holds the title “People’s Artist of Russia.”

FILMOGRAPHY
2005	Vremya Sobirat’ Kamni (A Time to Gather Stones)
2005	Favorit (The Favorite)
2005	Italianetz (The Italian)
2005	Printsessa i Nischiy (The Princess and the Pauper)
2006	Peregon (Transit)