Varvara Osipovna Massalitinova (July 17 ( 29 ), 1878 , Yelets - October 20, 1945 , Moscow ) - Russian and Soviet theater and film actress, People's Artist of the RSFSR (1933), laureate of the Stalin Prize of the second degree (1941).
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| Birth name | Varvara Osipovna Massalitinova | |||||
| Date of Birth | July 17 (29), 1878 | |||||
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| Date of death | October 20, 1945 (67 years old) | |||||
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| Profession | actress | |||||
| Years of activity | 1901 - 1945 | |||||
| Theater | Maly Theater | |||||
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Brother - artist Nikolai Massalitinov .
Biography
Childhood and youth passed in Tomsk , a gymnasium student took part in amateur performances, played the characteristic roles of old women. [2]
She graduated from the Mariinsky Gymnasium in Tomsk.
She performed on the amateur stage. At the end of the drama courses at the Moscow Theater School (class A.P. Lensky ) since 1901 at the Maly Theater . In the cinema since 1918.
She was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow (2nd section, 25th row, 17th place), next to the film director Y. A. Protazanov , who shot the film "Aelita" with her participation.
Awards and titles
- People's Artist of the RSFSR ( 1933 )
- 2 orders of the Red Banner of Labor (09/23/1937; 02/01/1939)
- The Stalin Prize of the second degree ( 1941 ) - for the role of grandmother Akulina Ivanovna in the films "Gorky's Childhood" (1938) and "In People" (1939).
Theater Work
New Theater
- 1902 - Dead Souls - Box
Show Theater
- 1919 - Forest - Gurmyzhskaya
Maly Theater
- 1904 - "Anniversary" - Merchutkina
- "Profitable place" - Kukushkina
- “Marriage” - matchmaker
- “Truth is good, but happiness is better” - Filitsata
- “Petitioners” - Shumilova
- “In a strange feast hangover” - Nenila Sidorovna
- 1923 - The Undergrowth - Prostakova
- 1935 - “For every sage, quite simplicity” - a drunkard-fortuneteller Manef
- 1938 - “Woe from Wit” by A. S. Griboedov - Khlestov
- 1943 - "Invasion" L. M. Leonova - nanny Demidievna
Filmography
- 1919 - Polikushka - joiner
- 1924 - Aelita - episode
- 1924 - Morozko
- 1927 - Lord Skotinina - Prostakova
- 1928 - Man was born
- 1933 - Thunderstorm - Boar
- 1938 - Alexander Nevsky - Buslay's mother
- 1938 - Gorky's childhood - Akulina Ivanovna
- 1939 - In people - Akulina Ivanovna
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 Massalitinova Varvara Osipovna // Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [in 30 vol.] / Ed. A. M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ in the beginning of the 90s of the XIX century, the amazing talent of one of Mariinsky’s students - Varenka Massalitinova (an unavailable link)
Links
- Maly Theater. Massalitinova Varvara Osipovna.
- Massalitinova Varvara Osipovna. On the occasion of the 130th birthday
- Grave of Massalitinova
- Encyclopaedia Round the World
- New movie encyclopedia
- Afanasyev V.V. O. Massalitinova. M., 1951
- Ilyina M.V. Massalitinova. - In the book: Actors of Soviet Cinema, no. 6.L., 1970