Sofya Vladimirovna Giatsintova (Russian: СофьÑ
Ð'ладимировна Ð"иацинтова, August 4 (July 23,
o.s.), 1895, - April 12, 1982) was a Russian, Soviet film and theatre
actress, who worked in the Moscow Art Theatre (1910-1937), the Lenkom
Theatre (1938-1957, 1961-1982, where she was the artistic director in
1951-1957), and the Moscow Stanislavsky Drama Theatre (1958-1960).
Sofia Giatsintova, the People's Artist of the USSR (1955), received
the USSR State Prize (1947, for her part of Varvara Mikhaylovna in the
film The Vow, 1946), as well as numerous state awards, among them the
Order of Lenin (1965, 1975). She is the author of the book of memoirs
Alone With Memories (С Ð¿Ð°Ð¼Ñ Ñ‚ÑŒÑŽ наедине, 1985).Sofya
Giatsintova was born in 1895 to a noble family from Moscow. Her father
Vladimir Giatsintov was the Moscow University professor; after 1914 he
became the director of the Moscow University Fine Arts museum. Her
mother Elizaveta Alexeyevna Giatsintova (née Vekstern) was connected
to the renowned Chaadayev family. Sofia remembered her childhood as a
happy one. The family adored theatre; Vladimir Giatsintov was a member
of the Moscow Shakespearean Society and an amateur playwright. Even as
a gymnasium student Sofia decided she'd be an actress and started to
take lessons from Elena Muratova, the actress of the Moscow Art
Theatre, and in summer 1910 joined its troupe.In MAT Giatsintova
became part of the active group of young actors, among them Evgeny
Vakhtangov, Mikhail Chekhov, Serafima Birman, which soon became known
as the MAT's First Studio and later Second Moscow Art Theatre. Among
her best known parts there were those of Maria in Shakespeare's The
Twelfth Night (1917, 1933), Sima (Crank, by Alexander Afinogenov,
1929), Nelly (Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1932). In
1924 she married Ivan Bersenev, the theatre's actor and later artistic
director. In 1936, as MAT 2 closed, Giatsintova (along with Bersenev
and Birman) moved to the Lenkom Theatre which she became the head of
in 1952.In 1946 Giatsintova starred in Mikhail Chiaureli's The Vow as
Varvara Petrovna, a woman who travels to Moscow on foot to give the
beloved Vladimir Ilyich Lenin the letter written by common people,
only to find that the great revolutionary leader has just died. She
finds herself on the Red Square and gives the letter to Iosif Stalin
instead, right after he's proclaimed his allegiance to the Lenin's
cause, speaking at the funeral. The film brought Giatsintova the
Stalin Prize, but hasn't been seen much of after the Soviet dictator's
death in 1953.
Ð'ладимировна Ð"иацинтова, August 4 (July 23,
o.s.), 1895, - April 12, 1982) was a Russian, Soviet film and theatre
actress, who worked in the Moscow Art Theatre (1910-1937), the Lenkom
Theatre (1938-1957, 1961-1982, where she was the artistic director in
1951-1957), and the Moscow Stanislavsky Drama Theatre (1958-1960).
Sofia Giatsintova, the People's Artist of the USSR (1955), received
the USSR State Prize (1947, for her part of Varvara Mikhaylovna in the
film The Vow, 1946), as well as numerous state awards, among them the
Order of Lenin (1965, 1975). She is the author of the book of memoirs
Alone With Memories (С Ð¿Ð°Ð¼Ñ Ñ‚ÑŒÑŽ наедине, 1985).Sofya
Giatsintova was born in 1895 to a noble family from Moscow. Her father
Vladimir Giatsintov was the Moscow University professor; after 1914 he
became the director of the Moscow University Fine Arts museum. Her
mother Elizaveta Alexeyevna Giatsintova (née Vekstern) was connected
to the renowned Chaadayev family. Sofia remembered her childhood as a
happy one. The family adored theatre; Vladimir Giatsintov was a member
of the Moscow Shakespearean Society and an amateur playwright. Even as
a gymnasium student Sofia decided she'd be an actress and started to
take lessons from Elena Muratova, the actress of the Moscow Art
Theatre, and in summer 1910 joined its troupe.In MAT Giatsintova
became part of the active group of young actors, among them Evgeny
Vakhtangov, Mikhail Chekhov, Serafima Birman, which soon became known
as the MAT's First Studio and later Second Moscow Art Theatre. Among
her best known parts there were those of Maria in Shakespeare's The
Twelfth Night (1917, 1933), Sima (Crank, by Alexander Afinogenov,
1929), Nelly (Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 1932). In
1924 she married Ivan Bersenev, the theatre's actor and later artistic
director. In 1936, as MAT 2 closed, Giatsintova (along with Bersenev
and Birman) moved to the Lenkom Theatre which she became the head of
in 1952.In 1946 Giatsintova starred in Mikhail Chiaureli's The Vow as
Varvara Petrovna, a woman who travels to Moscow on foot to give the
beloved Vladimir Ilyich Lenin the letter written by common people,
only to find that the great revolutionary leader has just died. She
finds herself on the Red Square and gives the letter to Iosif Stalin
instead, right after he's proclaimed his allegiance to the Lenin's
cause, speaking at the funeral. The film brought Giatsintova the
Stalin Prize, but hasn't been seen much of after the Soviet dictator's
death in 1953.
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