Varvara Osipovna Massalitinova (Russian: Ð'Ð°Ñ€Ð²Ð°Ì Ñ€Ð°
ÐžÌ Ñ Ð¸Ð¿Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð° ÐœÐ°Ñ Ñ Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð°; July 29, 1878 â€"
October 20, 1945) was a Russian and Soviet theatre and film
actress.Born at Yelets in Oryol Governorate, she began acting at an
amateur theatre club in the Siberian city of Tomsk. She then moved to
Moscow and studied acting under Alexander Lensky at the Moscow
Theatrical school, from which she graduated in 1901 as an actress.From
1901 to 1945 Varvara Massalitinova was a permanent member of the
troupe at Maly Academic Theatre in Moscow. There she worked on stage
with such actors as Maria Yermolova, Yelena Gogoleva, Aleksandra
Yablochkina, Vera Pashennaya, Aleksandr Yuzhin, Aleksandr Ostuzhev,
Vladimir Davydov, Konstantin Zubov, Stepan Kuznetsov, Nikolai
Annenkov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Igor Ilyinsky and many other notable
Russian actors. She became famous in 1902 after her powerful stage
performances as Korobochka in Nikolai Gogol's classic drama Dead
Souls. Among her best-known stage roles were such classic parts as the
officer's widow in the 1903 staging of Revizor (The Government
Inspector), Merchutkina in Jubiley (1904), based on a play by Anton
Chekhov, and Kukushkina in the 1911 staging of A Profitable Position.
Over the course of her stage career Massalitinova established herself
as one of the best performers in the classic plays by Aleksandr
Ostrovsky.In 1922 Massalitinova made her film debut in a small role in
a silent movie Polikushka. Then she worked with director Yakov
Protazanov in the first Russian Sci-Fi experiment, Aelita (1924),
where she appeared alongside Mikhail Zharov and Igor Ilyinsky among
other fellow actors from the Maly Theatre. In 1939 Massalitinova
received a state award for her portrayal of the grandmother of writer
Maxim Gorky in the 1938 classic film trilogy by director Mark Donskoy
based on Gorky's autobiographical books. Her best-known role was the
mother of the Russian folk hero Buslai in the acclaimed film Aleksandr
Nevskiy (1938) by director Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai
Cherkasov and Nikolai Okhlopkov.
ÐžÌ Ñ Ð¸Ð¿Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð° ÐœÐ°Ñ Ñ Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð°; July 29, 1878 â€"
October 20, 1945) was a Russian and Soviet theatre and film
actress.Born at Yelets in Oryol Governorate, she began acting at an
amateur theatre club in the Siberian city of Tomsk. She then moved to
Moscow and studied acting under Alexander Lensky at the Moscow
Theatrical school, from which she graduated in 1901 as an actress.From
1901 to 1945 Varvara Massalitinova was a permanent member of the
troupe at Maly Academic Theatre in Moscow. There she worked on stage
with such actors as Maria Yermolova, Yelena Gogoleva, Aleksandra
Yablochkina, Vera Pashennaya, Aleksandr Yuzhin, Aleksandr Ostuzhev,
Vladimir Davydov, Konstantin Zubov, Stepan Kuznetsov, Nikolai
Annenkov, Mikhail Tsaryov, Igor Ilyinsky and many other notable
Russian actors. She became famous in 1902 after her powerful stage
performances as Korobochka in Nikolai Gogol's classic drama Dead
Souls. Among her best-known stage roles were such classic parts as the
officer's widow in the 1903 staging of Revizor (The Government
Inspector), Merchutkina in Jubiley (1904), based on a play by Anton
Chekhov, and Kukushkina in the 1911 staging of A Profitable Position.
Over the course of her stage career Massalitinova established herself
as one of the best performers in the classic plays by Aleksandr
Ostrovsky.In 1922 Massalitinova made her film debut in a small role in
a silent movie Polikushka. Then she worked with director Yakov
Protazanov in the first Russian Sci-Fi experiment, Aelita (1924),
where she appeared alongside Mikhail Zharov and Igor Ilyinsky among
other fellow actors from the Maly Theatre. In 1939 Massalitinova
received a state award for her portrayal of the grandmother of writer
Maxim Gorky in the 1938 classic film trilogy by director Mark Donskoy
based on Gorky's autobiographical books. Her best-known role was the
mother of the Russian folk hero Buslai in the acclaimed film Aleksandr
Nevskiy (1938) by director Sergei Eisenstein, starring Nikolai
Cherkasov and Nikolai Okhlopkov.
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