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| Born | Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova 6 February [O.S. 25 January] 1898 |
| Died | 5 April 1973 (aged 75) |
| Occupation(s) | Actress, pedagogue |
| Years active | 1916–1973 |
Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (Russian: А́лла Константи́новна Тара́сова; 6 February [O.S. 25 January] 1898 – 5 April 1973) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. She was a leading actress of Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre from the late 1920s onward.[1] People's Artist of the USSR (1937) and Hero of Socialist Labour (1973).
Career
A title role in Anna Karenina (1937) was her most resounding success. She appeared to mixed reviews as Katerina in the screen version of Ostrovsky's The Storm (1934) and as Catherine I in the movie Peter the Great (1937). Tarasova toured London and United States with the Moscow Art Theatre in 1922–1924 to much international acclaim. She was a recipient of five Stalin Prizes (in 1941, twice in 1946, 1947, and 1949), two Orders of Lenin and the honorary title of People's Artist of the USSR in 1937.[2]
Tarasova joined the Communist Party in 1954, having already been elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union in 1952. She served as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet until 1960 and was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour shortly before her death in 1973.[3]
Tarasova died on 5 April 1973 and was interred at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery.[4]
In 1975, a ship, the MV Alla Tarasova, was named after her.
Filmography
- Raskolnikow (1923)
- The Storm (1933)
- Peter the Great (1937)
- Guilty Without Guilt (1945)
- Anna Karenina (1953)
- A Long Happy Life (1966)
References
- ^ "Мастера советского театра и кино". /www.tvmuseum.ru (in Russian). Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
- ^ Наше кино – Алла Тарасова
- ^ "Алла Тарасова: Неугасимая Звезда". tarasova2007.narod.ru (in Russian).
- ^ "Тарасова Алла Константиновна". warheroes.ru (in Russian).
Sources
- Solovyova, Inna. 1999. "The Theatre and Socialist Realism, 1929-1953." Trans. Jean Benedetti. In A History of Russian Theatre. Ed. Robert Leach and Victor Borovsky. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 325–357. ISBN 0-521-43220-0.
External links
Media related to Alla Tarasova at Wikimedia Commons- Alla Tarasova at IMDb
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