Popova, Alexandra Vasilyevna

Born on January 8, 1917 ( December 26, 1916 old style) in Tsarskoye Selo.

Father - Vasily Kharitonovich Nevdahov, was a colonel of the personal security of His Majesty Nicholas II . He graduated from Kharkov real school. In service since 05/27/1892. He graduated from the Odessa infantry cadet school on the 2nd category. 01/01/1886 promoted to second lieutenant with appointment to the 22nd Nizhny Novgorod Infantry Regiment. 11/30/1906 transferred to ALC (Separate Corps of Gendarmes) with renaming to headquarters. In 1910 sent to the palace commandant. Appointed head of the palace guard. 02/26/1912 promoted to lieutenant colonel for distinguished service. 12/06/1915 promoted to colonel for distinguished service.

Tsarevich Alexei visited their family. He said to the empress that Vasily Kharitonovich had a daughter, whom they want to name in her honor. Then Alexandra Feodorovna expressed a desire to become the godmother of Alexandra. Alexandra Nevlakhova became her last godfather. During the February Revolution , her father, who was with the sovereign, went missing, as was supposed in the family later, was killed by conspirators demanding the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II from the throne.

But in the database of the participants of the white movement there is information that Vasily Kharitonovich escaped (or his documents were used). According to this data, he was in the Volunteer Army and Armed Forces of the South of Russia; in 1919 the chief of intelligence of the troops of the Kiev region. In emigration to Greece. Member of the Union of Russian maimed warriors in Thessaloniki. Mind. 1930s in Piraeus (Greece). ^[one]

Mother - Evgenia Vasilievna, nee Nensberg. Her father, Vasily Egorovich (Alexandra's grandfather), was born in Tver, lived in Kiev in 1917 , was the director of the Department of Fates of the Tsar's lands. Empress Maria Feodorovna offered Evgenia Vasilyevna to leave the Crimea with her abroad, but Evgenia Vasilyevna decided to stay to find a husband.

Stepfather Alexandra, a US citizen, Mission Officer Nansen, but by origin Volga German, whom her mother married in the Crimea in 1920 after occupying the Crimea with red, was Gerhard Garder Genrikhovich. ^[2]

Since her stepfather was afraid of the NKVD , until 1932 she lived with her mother and stepfather outside the capitals in the Crimea and Ukraine. In 1932, his stepfather worked at Rostselmash, where he was interested in the NKVD. The NKVD was arrested and went missing. ^[3]

From 13 years old she studied at the ballet school. At 15 years old, living with her mother in Kiev, Alexandra was already a master of sports in diving from a tower. Here she studied at the Kiev Ballet School.

Then they lived in Moscow. There, Alexandra entered the studio school of A. D. Diky . When the Bolshoi Drama Theater was created in Leningrad - it was organized by Dikiy, then his entire studio moved to Leningrad . But without Alexandra - at that time she already starred in the movie under the name of Alla Garder in the lead roles of girls who can accomplish the impossible for the sake of the Fatherland and their dreams. Shooting in the film “Homeland Calls” at the Tushino airfield , where the parachute school was near, Alexandra entered there secretly from the crew. She graduated from this school, as well as a glider .

During the Great Patriotic War, she participated in front-line acting teams. Alexandra Vasilievna married commander Popova . In the 40s in the credits was listed as Alla Popova.

In the 1960s, Alexandra Vasilyevna remarried, with Leonid Davydov-Suboch . In 1968, their daughter Yevgeny was born.

In the 1960s she played in literary and musical compositions of Vsevolod Aksyonov.

Then, under the auspices of Rosconcert, together with her husband, she performed with her mini-movie theater in Kamchatka, Sakhalin, BAM, in Bratsk, Central Asia.

After the death of her son, she partially lost her speech, but underwent successful treatment. In 2001, her book “Pranks of fate or unforeseen turns of my life: Memoirs of the Empress Alexandra Feodorovna's goddaughter” was published in Moscow ^[4]

She died in 2004 .

• 1930 - A man from the town
• 1931 - The Man without Case - episode
• 1936 - Motherland calls - Lucy , in credits - A. Garder
• 1937 - Alamasov Gorge - Grania Steblina, radio operator of the expedition
• 1940 - The Fifth Ocean - Natasha
• 1940 - Price of Life - Duty Radio Operator
• 1946 - Big Life. 2 series - Zina (in the credits Alla Popova)
• 1956 - Song of the Tabunshchik - Lidia Ivanovna Tsvetkova, accompanist
• 1957 - Gutta - percha boy - Aunt Sonya
• 1958 - Friend - mother of Misha Kozlov
• 1959 - The sky calls - Faith, wife of Kornev
• 1959 - Song of Koltsov
• 1960 - In one district
• 1960 - Probationary period - walking (in credits - A. Popova)
• 1961 - And if this is love? - mother Nadi
• 1961 - Academician from Askania - Lyudmila Petrovna Verigina, wife
• 1962 - Colleagues - Yegorov's wife (not in the credits)
• 1962 - See the sky! (short)
• 1962 - The sixteenth spring - Polina Stepanovna, Slavka's mother
• 1967 - Beginning of an unknown century (cinema almanac)
• 1967 - Homeland of electricity (second story)
• 1974 - Betting (short)
• 1975 - Oooo! (film almanac) - the wife of a caring viewer
• 1975 - Saturday evening (short)
• 1976 - Three rubles (short)
• 1976 - Thermometer (short)
• 1977 - Butterfly (short)
• 1993 - Territory - episode

• Popova Alexandra Vasilyevna
• Interview with Davydov-Suboch and his wife