life, to the point of giving away his clothes to people in the street. Portrayals Hermann Thimig is the first actor to play Alyosha in film in 1915's The Brothers Karamazov directed by Victor Tourjansky, now a lost film. Italian actor Carlo Conso portrayed the character in the 1947 Italian film I fratelli Karamazoff Canadian-American actor William Shatner portrays Alyosha in the 1958 American film adaptation. Russian actor Andrey Myagkov in the Soviet 1969 adaptation. Russian actor Aleksandr Golubev portrayed Alyosha in the 2009 Russian TV miniseries Bratya Karamazovy. References External links The Brothers Karamazov Fyodor Dostoyevsky characters Fictional monks Fictional Russian people in literature Male characters in literature Literary characters introduced in 1880