Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya (; 15 June 1920 – 25 June 2008) was a Russian stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre in

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.Казанская Алла: «Эта пиковая дама». День рождения Аллы Казанской
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-winning drama ''

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'' (1994).Умерла актриса и педагог Алла Казанская
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Aram Khachaturian Aram Ilyich Khachaturian (; 1 May 1978) was a Soviet Armenians, Armenian composer and conductor. He is considered one of the leading Music of the Soviet Union#Classical music of the Soviet Union, Soviet composers. Khachaturian was born and rai ...

dedicated the ''Waltz'' from his incidental music to

Lermontov Mikhail Yuryevich Lermontov ( , ; rus, Михаи́л Ю́рьевич Ле́рмонтов, , mʲɪxɐˈil ˈjʉrʲjɪvʲɪtɕ ˈlʲerməntəf, links=yes; – ) was a Russian Romantic writer, poet and painter, sometimes called "the poet of ...

's ''Masquerade'' to her. By the time of her death at age 88, she was the theatre's oldest working actress. She had received the Crystal Turandot, Russia's foremost theatre award, in 2007. Kazanskaya was the fourth wife of director

Boris Barnet Boris Vasilyevich Barnet (; 18 June 1902 – 8 January 1965) was a Soviet film director, actor and screenwriter of British heritage. He directed 27 films between 1927 and 1963. Barnet was awarded the title Merited Artist of the Russian Federa ...

, who committed suicide in 1965. Their daughter Olga Barnet (1951–2021) was also an actress.

Awards

People's Artist of the RSFSR People's Artist of the RSFSR (, ''Narodnyj artist RSFSR'') was an honorary title granted to Soviet Union artists, including theatre and film directors, actors, choreographers, music performers, and orchestra conductors, who had outstanding achiev ...

(1971)

References

External links

Russian-language obituary
* 1920 births 2008 deaths Actors from Chișinău Soviet film actresses Soviet stage actresses Russian film actresses Russian stage actresses Honored Artists of the RSFSR People's Artists of the RSFSR Recipients of the Order of Honour (Russia) Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery 20th-century Russian women {{Russia-actor-stub