In 1936 , Dikiy was ordered out of Moscow , then he was appointed the director of the Bolshoi Drama Theater ( BDT ) in Leningrad . There he began his lifelong collaboration and friendship with actor Boris Babochkin . At that time many Russian intellectuals were terrorized by purges and repressions , known as the " Great Terror " under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin . In 1937 Aleksei Dikiy was arrested on false accusations of anti-Soviet activity . In reality he was a victim of behind-the-scenes manipulations against him by other jealous actors . Dikiy was sentenced and exiled to a Gulag prison-camp in Siberia , where he spent four years until his release in 1941
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Aleksei Dikiy