Lidiya Vertinskaya
Lidiya Vladimirovna Vertinskaya, born Tsirgvava (წირღვავა) (14 April 1923 – 31 December 2013), was a Russian-Georgian actress and artist. Her paternal grandparents had moved to China from Georgia with their children, but retained Russian citizenship. Her mother, Lydia Pavlovna Tsirgvava, (née Fomina), originally from a Siberian family of Old Believers, was a housewife.
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Lidiya Vertinskaya
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- Name
- Lidiya Vertinskaya
- Born
- 14 April 1923
- Birthplace
- Harbin, Heilongjiang, China
- Died
- 31 December 2013
- Place of death
- Moscow, Russia
- Education
- Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture
- Occupation
- Actress, artist
- Full name
- Лидия Владимировна Циргвава.
- Nationality
- Republic of China, Soviet Union and Russia.
- Languages
- Russian.
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Lidiya Vladimirovna Vertinskaya, born Tsirgvava (წირღვავა) (14 April 1923 – 31 December 2013), was a Russian-Georgian actress and artist. Her paternal grandparents had moved to China from Georgia with their children, but retained Russian citizenship. Her mother, Lydia Pavlovna Tsirgvava, (née Fomina), originally from a Siberian family of Old Believers, was a housewife.
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In 1940, Vertinskaya met the Russian singer Aleksandr Vertinsky in Shanghai. Although he was 34 years older than she, the two were married two years later. In 1943, they emigrated to the Soviet Union. In 1955, Lidiya Vladimirovna Vertinskaya was graduated from the V. Surikov Art Institute and started working as an artist. Beginning in 1952, she also appeared in a number of movies, mostly adaptations of fairy tales. In 2004 she published a book of memoirs, The Blue Bird of Love. Vertinskaya died on 31 December 2013 and was buried near her husband's grave in the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow.
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• Name — Lidiya Vertinskaya • Native Name — Лидия Вертинская • Born — 14 April 1923 • Birthplace — Harbin, Heilongjiang, China • Died — 31 December 2013 • Place of death — Moscow, Russia • Education — Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture • Occupation — Actress, artist • Children — 2 (Marianna and Anastasiya)
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Filmography
• Sadko (1953) as The Phoenix • Don Quixote (1957) as The Duchess • New Adventures of Puss-in-Boots (1958) as young witch • Kyivlyanka (1958) as Frau Marta • Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors (1964) as Anidag
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