A Russian-born British actor, writer and producer. The author of Easy Russian for English speakers audio book and producer and narrator of Short Stories by Anton Chekhov series. Recent film and TV work include BBC's Doctor Who Special The Waters of Mars as Mikhail Kerenski; Doctor WHO: Singularirty as Pavel Fedorin; ITV's film drama Ghostboat playing Soviet Naval captain and BBC's TV film Life Beyond the Box: Margo Leadbetter as Charles Allcock. Narrating the Noise Monster audio production Space 1889: The Lunar Inheritance as Colonel Molokov, and the BBC TV series 20th Century Battlefields.

Prior to establishing career in performing arts and digital media held management posts at The Cambridge University Local Examination Syndicate (now Cambridge Assessment), various management and consulting posts in British Telecommunications Plc (BT), British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).

Max Bollinger about Anton Chekhov:-

“One of my most loved authors is Anton Pavlovich Chekhov. I admire not only his literary works, but also his personal achievement as a great human being. Chekhov continued to work as physician and kept treating poor patients free of charge throughout his life, even at times when his own family experienced financial hardships. His style of writing is one of the most unique. He invented stream of consciousness technique and made such immense contribution during his fairly short life, that his works can described as truly immortal. His work is full of inspiration, wisdom and wit which shines so bright, that it can be seen quite possibly beyond the boundaries of our small planet”

“I rediscovered Chekhov in England after having read his short stories in English. It felt like Chekhov’s texts started to speak to me. I found his words so agile, so relevant, and so enigmatic, that I could not stop. It was like some magic book written in code suddenly opening up and transforming into beautiful gleaming stream of light. Chekhov’s writing is full of enlightenment, wisdom and humour that I made it a personal goal to bring these stories to anyone seeking light and truth”

Chekhov had a sharp eye and was able to capture life with extraordinary skill He often insisted that the duty of art and an artist is not to answer questions, but ask them. And indeed what his writing does is huge effort to make people think and not only see the question but also resolve it. And this resolution is not written in the form of instruction by Chekhov; the way he constructed his stories is such that answers come between the lines. And the solution is different for each person.”

Max completed 8 year classic music and arts school in Russia and plays piano. Favourite composers include Beethoven, Tchaikovskiy, Mozart, Dvorak, Haydn, Bach, Khachaturian and Vivaldi
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