Faina Vasilyevna Shevchenko (Russian: Фаина Ð'Ð°Ñ Ð¸Ð»ÑŒÐµÐ²Ð½Ð°
Шевченко, born 17 July 1893, Voronezh, Imperial Russia, â€"
died 10 May 1971, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian and Soviet stage
and film actress, the People's Artist of the USSR (1948) and the
recipient of several high-profile state awards (including the Order of
Lenin, 1938) and twice the Stalin Prize laureate (1943, 1946).One of
the leading actresses of the Moscow Art Theatre (where she debuted in
1914 and stayed until 1959), Shevchenko excelled in Russian drama
classics and was best remembered for her roles in the plays by
Alexander Ostrovsky, including Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
(1920), An Ardent Heart (1926), The Storm (1934), The Last Victim
(1944) and The Forest (1948), as well as by Maxim Gorky (The Lower
Depths, 1916). She was cast in seven films, including David
Guramishvili (1946), The Composer Glinka (1952) and The Lower Depths
(1952). "Dazzlingly simple, vivid, filled to the brim with life,
endowed with huge temperament and open heart," was how the theatre
historian Pavel Markov described her in his book of memoirs.She was
said to be the artist Boris Kustodiev's favourite model and, as a
21-year-old, sat nude for his The Beauty sessions. This daring venture
caused scandal and almost cost Shevchenko her place in the troupe.
Шевченко, born 17 July 1893, Voronezh, Imperial Russia, â€"
died 10 May 1971, Moscow, Soviet Union) was a Russian and Soviet stage
and film actress, the People's Artist of the USSR (1948) and the
recipient of several high-profile state awards (including the Order of
Lenin, 1938) and twice the Stalin Prize laureate (1943, 1946).One of
the leading actresses of the Moscow Art Theatre (where she debuted in
1914 and stayed until 1959), Shevchenko excelled in Russian drama
classics and was best remembered for her roles in the plays by
Alexander Ostrovsky, including Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man
(1920), An Ardent Heart (1926), The Storm (1934), The Last Victim
(1944) and The Forest (1948), as well as by Maxim Gorky (The Lower
Depths, 1916). She was cast in seven films, including David
Guramishvili (1946), The Composer Glinka (1952) and The Lower Depths
(1952). "Dazzlingly simple, vivid, filled to the brim with life,
endowed with huge temperament and open heart," was how the theatre
historian Pavel Markov described her in his book of memoirs.She was
said to be the artist Boris Kustodiev's favourite model and, as a
21-year-old, sat nude for his The Beauty sessions. This daring venture
caused scandal and almost cost Shevchenko her place in the troupe.
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