Cleopatra Vasilievna Timoshenko ( Ukrainian Cleopatra Vasilivna Timoshenko ) ( 1901 , Ustya village, Kherson gubernia , Russian Empire - 1984 , Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR , USSR ) - Soviet and Ukrainian theater actress. Honored Artist of the USSR . The wife of director Ivan Yukhimenko [1] .
| Cleopatra Tymoshenko | |
|---|---|
| ukr Cleopatra Vasilіvna Tymoshenko | |
| Date of Birth | 1901 |
| Place of Birth | with. Estuary , Kherson Province , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | 1984 |
| Place of death | Zhytomyr , Ukrainian SSR , USSR |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire  the USSR |
| Profession | actress |
| Theater | Zhytomyr Regional Drama Theater |
| Awards |   |
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Biography
Born in 1901 in a poor peasant family in the village of Ustya, Kherson province , at the age of nine she remained an orphan. At first, her uncle, a retired sailor, was engaged in it, and later her priest Yuri Zhevchenko and his wife Olga Gorskaya became her guardians. With their support, Cleopatra graduated from the second Kiev gymnasium and began to study at a medical institute.
She kept in touch with this family even after the divorce of Yuri Zhevchenko with his wife. She had an affair with Yulia Mordalevich, but at the insistence of Yuri Zhevchenko, she stopped relations with him.
Due to illness, she interrupted her studies at the medical institute and decided not to return to him. In 1925 he became a student of the Acting Studio at the Poltava Theater named after T. Shevchenko, and since 1926, and an actress of this theater.
Since 1926, she was married to the director Ivan Yukhimenko , raised a son and daughter with him.
In 1927, Cleopatra Vasilievna became the actress of Odessa State Drama, and later worked in such leading theaters in Ukraine as the Kharkov Krasnozavodsk Theater (1928-1930), the Dnipropetrovsk Theater. Shevchenko (1930-1932), State Theater of the Revolution (1932-1934), Odessa Theater of the Revolution (1934-1938), Kharkov Theater of the Leninist Komsomol (1938-1940). At the end of 1940 she was transferred to the Chernivtsi Music and Drama Theater, where she worked before the start of military events in Ukraine. There, with her husband and other actors, she visited Olga Kobylyanskaya . [2] Ivan Yakovlevich told the writer about the creative plans of the theater.
From Chernivtsi, she moved to Kharkov.
On September 28, 1941, in Kharkov, like her husband, were arrested for "anti-Soviet agitation," she was reminded of a long-standing acquaintance with Julia Mordalevich. A five-year sentence was serving in Kazan. In 1946 she was released, in 1956 - rehabilitated. Her husband did not return from Kazan, died there in 1943.
Since 1946 - one of the leading actresses of the Zhytomyr Regional Drama Theater.
Featured Performances and Roles
- Taras Shevchenko - Oksana Oberemko
- Thunderstorm - Catherine
- Viburnum grove - Nadezhda Romanyuk
- Gadfly - Jem
- Deep Roots - Alice Langdon
- Maroussia Boguslavka - Maroussia
- Republic on Wheels - Lyuska
- Plato Krechet - Lida
- Gaydamaki - Oksana
- Forest Song - Mavka
- Stolen Happiness - Anna
Notes
- ↑ Secrets of the director: no taboos / Leonid Danchuk. - Zh .: Polisya, 2006 - p. 158
- ↑ Science Newsletter of the Chernivtsi University. - 2004. - p. 166