Lviv, Vera Konstantinovna

She was born on November 19 ( December 1 ), 1898 in Moscow (the validity of the date of birth has not been clarified: there were rumors in the theater that Vera Konstantinovna had changed the year of her birth in the passport from 1893 to 1898). In 1917 she entered the studio of E. B. Vakhtangov . In 1926, the studio became the Vakhtangov Theater , where she worked with her husband, actor L. M. Shikhmatov . She played in the theater, three performances with her participation were filmed:

• “For every wise man of rather simplicity” (1971) - the first engraftment
• “On the Golden Bottom” (1977) - Mosevna
• "Idiot" (1979) - an old lady .

Leonid Shikhmatov and Vera Lvova belonged to the old Vakhtangov cohort, held together by a single large creative family, always helping each other out. They lived in a house specially built in 1928 for workers of the Vakhtangov Theater in Bolshoi Levshinsky Lane , and everyone in the house was co-workers.

According to the recollections of their housemate A.V. Mass , when the theater actress V.G. Vagrina returned from exile (she was arrested as the wife of the "enemy of the people" of the head of the V / O "Glavkhimplastmass" People's Commissariat of Heavy Industry of the USSR D. M Kolmanovsky - shot in 1937, rehabilitated posthumously in 1989), left without housing and a Moscow residence permit, the theater administration immediately found an opportunity to contact the authorities and return her residence permit, and Shikhmatov and Lvov offered housing, providing a room in their apartment ^{[1 ]} .

• November 13, 1921 - Vakhtangov Studio (Vakhtangov Studio), called the 3rd Moscow Art Theater Studio, official opening - “Miracle of St. Anthony” by M. Meterlink ; Director Evg. Vakhtangov - 1st lady
• November 15, 1921 - “Evening of A.P. Chekhov”, staged by Eugene. Vakhtangova ("Anniversary" by A.P. Chekhov ) - Tatyana Alekseevna
• 1922 - “ Princess Turandot ” Carlo Gozzi , director E. B. Vakhtangov - Skirina and Zanni
• 1925 - “Virinea” by L. N. Seifullina . Director A. D. Popov - blind old woman
• 1927 - “Break” B. A. Lavrenev , director A. D. Popov - Berseneva
• 1928 - “ Zoykin’s apartment ” by M. A. Bulgakov . Director: A. D. Popov - 1st irresponsible lady
• January 20, 1930 - “ Cunning and Love ” by F. Schiller , directors Pavel Antokolsky , O. N. Basov , Boris Zakhava - Miller’s wife
• 1932 - " Egor Bulychov and others " by M. Gorky . Director Boris Zahava - Elizabeth
• November 20, 1942 - “Cyrano de Bergerac” by E. Rostan ; Director Nikolai Okhlopkov - Lisa
• 1946 - Electra Sophocles , director E. B. Gardt , director fast. R.N. Simonov - Chrysophemida
• 1956 - Filumena Marturano by Eduardo de Filippo - Teresina
• 1958 - The Idiot by F. M. Dostoevsky . Director: A. I. Remizova - 2nd lady
• October 22, 1960 - “Ladies and Hussars” A. Fredro , director A. I. Remizova - Dyndalskaya
• “ For every wise man of quite simplicity ” A. N. Ostrovsky , director A. I. Remizov - 1st engraftment
• “On the Golden Bottom”, director A. I. Remizova - Mosevna

• “Buyer of Children”, director M. A. Ulyanov - a drinking old woman

• “Man with a Gun” N. Pogodina, director E. R. Simonov - grandmother Lisa

According to the actor of the theater Vakhtangov A.S. Menshchikov , she began teaching as early as 1920 in the studio.

She taught with her husband at the Shchukin school , conducted a general course. Among their students, Irina Demina , Sergey Prokhanov ^[2] , Alexander Shirvindt ^[3] , Yuri Lyubimov , Leonid Kanevsky , Leonid Filatov , Nina Ruslanova , Mikhail Ulyanov , Alla Parfanyak , Evgeny Simonov (later began to conduct training courses with them), Maria Skuratova , Lyudmila Stavskaya , Anatoly Ignatiev , Nina Nekhlopochenko , Vladimir Obrezkov , Valentin Smirnitsky , Mikhail Derzhavin Jr. , Vitaly Wenger , Nikolai Gritsenko , Lyudmila Tselikovskaya , Larisa Pashkova , Vladimir Etush , Yulia Borisova , Lyudmila Fetisova , Elena Korolova , Nazarina , Naz Okhlupin , Ekaterina Raikina , Lyudmila Chursina , Vadim Grachev , Alexander Kalyagin , Anastasia Vertinskaya , Alexander Khaletsky , Alexander Kaydanovsky , Alexander Trofimov , Stanislav Zhdanko , Yuri Belyaev , Sergey Ursulyak , I. Dykhovichny , Mikhail Bushnov , Rolan Bykova , Nina Doryova , Karina Vorova , Nina Doryovna , Nina , Yu. Katin-Yartsev , Vladimir Kachan , I. Bobylev , Y. Sanko , Igor Sirenko , Inna Ulyanova , V. Shiryaev , Yuri Shlykov , I. Dymchenko , Ruben Simonov Jr. and many other famous actors.