Editing Akim Tamiroff (section)

==Early life and education==
Tamiroff was born Hovakim Tamiryants ({{langx|hy|Հովակիմ Թամիրյանց}}) to [[Russian Armenians|Armenian]] parents<ref>{{cite book |last=Adalian |first=Rouben Paul |author-link=Rouben Paul Adalian |date=2010 |title=Historical Dictionary of Armenia |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QS-vSjHObOYC&pg=PA415 |location=Lanham, Maryland |publisher=Scarecrow Press |page=415 |isbn=978-0-8108-6096-4}}</ref> living in the [[Russian Empire]]. Different sources cite either [[Tiflis]]<ref>{{cite book |last=Parish |first=James Robert |author-link=James Robert Parish |date=1978 |title=Hollywood Character Actors |publisher=Arlington House |page=478 |isbn=0-87000-384-4}}</ref> (in modern-day [[Georgia (country)|Georgia]]) or [[Baku]]<ref name="nyt">{{cite news |title=Akim Tamiroff, Actor, Is Dead; Had Screen Career of 35 Years |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/19/archives/-akim-tamiroff-actor-is-dead1-had-screen-career-of-35-years-exert.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=September 19, 1972 |access-date=March 24, 2018 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20180324013209/https://www.nytimes.com/1972/09/19/archives/-akim-tamiroff-actor-is-dead1-had-screen-career-of-35-years-exert.html |archive-date=March 24, 2018 |url-status=live |df=dmy-all}}</ref> (in modern-day [[Azerbaijan]]) as his places of birth. His father was an oil worker, and his mother a [[seamstress]]. He trained at the [[Moscow Art Theatre]] drama school for nine years from the age of 19,<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=i2hxJrlSE0AC&pg=PA74|title=Russians in Hollywood|isbn=9781555536862|last1=Robinson|first1=Harlow|year=2007}}</ref> where he was a pupil of [[Konstantin Stanislavski]]. During that time, he changed his name to the [[Russification|russified]] moniker Akim Mikhailovich Tamiroff ({{langx|ru|Аким Михайлович Тамиров}}).