Marina Alekseyevna Ladynina (Russian: ÐœÐ°Ñ€Ð¸Ì Ð½Ð°
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ ÐµÌ ÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð›Ð°Ð´Ñ‹Ì Ð½Ð¸Ð½Ð°, June 24 [o.s. 11], 1908 in
Skotinino, Smolensk, Russian Empire â€" March 10, 2003 in Moscow,
Russian Federation) was a popular Soviet film and theatre actress,
best remembered for her leading roles in Tractor Drivers (1939), The
Swine Girl and the Shepherd (1941), Six O'Clock after the War is Over
(1944), Ballad of Siberia (1947) and Cossacks of the Kuban (1949), all
directed by her husband Ivan Pyryev. In 1950 Ladynina was honoured
with the People's Artist of the USSR title. She was a five-times
Stalin Prize laureate.Marina Ladynina was born in Skotinino village,
Smolensk, the eldest of four children, and spent her early years in
Nazarovo, near Achinsk in Eniseisk governorate, Siberia. Her parents,
Aleksey Dmitriyevich Ladynin (1879-1955) and Maria Naumovna
(1889-1971) were uneducated peasants; the family lived in a small
wooden hut and young Marina had to do most of the hard work in the
house. She spent summers as a hired worker at a local farm, milking
cows.As a schoolgirl, Marina was an avid reader; she joined the school
theatre where her first role was Natasha in Pushkin’s "Rusalka", and
regularly performed at the local street carnivals. In her teens Marina
became a part-time actress at the Achinsk Drama theater. Upon
graduation, aged sixteen, Ladynina went on to work as teacher in
Nazarovo. She continued to perform in Achinsk and give musical
performances there too, but was now determined to go to Moscow for
further education. Her first port of call was Smolensk, where she met
Sergey Fadeyev, the Meyerhold Theatre actor who advised her to go and
take exams at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. By a happy
coincidence the regional komsomol committee delegated Ladynina to
Moscow to study social sciences. Instead she went straight to the
Academy and gave an inspired performance before the jury which
included celebrities like Serafima Birman and Vasily Luzhsky. She was
instantly in, marked as "remarkably gifted" on the register list,
which meant she was free from taking any further exams.In 1929
Ladynina debuted on screen, in a silent move Do Not Enter This Town.
In her sophomore year she joined the Moscow Art Theatre part-time,
where she debuted as the nun Taisia in Egor Bulychov and Others after
Maxim Gorky, who personally expressed his delight. Then followed "In
the World" (V Lyudyakh), another adaptation of the Gorky's text. In
1933 Ladynina played a blind flower girl in Prosperity, directed by
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky. That year she graduated from the Academy and
joined the Moscow Art Theatre full-time.
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ ÐµÌ ÐµÐ²Ð½Ð° Ð›Ð°Ð´Ñ‹Ì Ð½Ð¸Ð½Ð°, June 24 [o.s. 11], 1908 in
Skotinino, Smolensk, Russian Empire â€" March 10, 2003 in Moscow,
Russian Federation) was a popular Soviet film and theatre actress,
best remembered for her leading roles in Tractor Drivers (1939), The
Swine Girl and the Shepherd (1941), Six O'Clock after the War is Over
(1944), Ballad of Siberia (1947) and Cossacks of the Kuban (1949), all
directed by her husband Ivan Pyryev. In 1950 Ladynina was honoured
with the People's Artist of the USSR title. She was a five-times
Stalin Prize laureate.Marina Ladynina was born in Skotinino village,
Smolensk, the eldest of four children, and spent her early years in
Nazarovo, near Achinsk in Eniseisk governorate, Siberia. Her parents,
Aleksey Dmitriyevich Ladynin (1879-1955) and Maria Naumovna
(1889-1971) were uneducated peasants; the family lived in a small
wooden hut and young Marina had to do most of the hard work in the
house. She spent summers as a hired worker at a local farm, milking
cows.As a schoolgirl, Marina was an avid reader; she joined the school
theatre where her first role was Natasha in Pushkin’s "Rusalka", and
regularly performed at the local street carnivals. In her teens Marina
became a part-time actress at the Achinsk Drama theater. Upon
graduation, aged sixteen, Ladynina went on to work as teacher in
Nazarovo. She continued to perform in Achinsk and give musical
performances there too, but was now determined to go to Moscow for
further education. Her first port of call was Smolensk, where she met
Sergey Fadeyev, the Meyerhold Theatre actor who advised her to go and
take exams at the Russian Academy of Theatre Arts. By a happy
coincidence the regional komsomol committee delegated Ladynina to
Moscow to study social sciences. Instead she went straight to the
Academy and gave an inspired performance before the jury which
included celebrities like Serafima Birman and Vasily Luzhsky. She was
instantly in, marked as "remarkably gifted" on the register list,
which meant she was free from taking any further exams.In 1929
Ladynina debuted on screen, in a silent move Do Not Enter This Town.
In her sophomore year she joined the Moscow Art Theatre part-time,
where she debuted as the nun Taisia in Egor Bulychov and Others after
Maxim Gorky, who personally expressed his delight. Then followed "In
the World" (V Lyudyakh), another adaptation of the Gorky's text. In
1933 Ladynina played a blind flower girl in Prosperity, directed by
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky. That year she graduated from the Academy and
joined the Moscow Art Theatre full-time.
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