Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (; – 5 April 1973) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress and pedagogue. She was a leading actress of

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Moscow Art Theatre The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; , ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright ...

from the late 1920s onward.

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(1937) and

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(1973).

Career

A title role in ''

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'' (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

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in the movie ''

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'' (1937). Tarasova toured

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and

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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

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and the

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in 1937. Tarasova joined the Communist Party in 1954, having already been elected to the

Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union The Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (SSUSSR) was the highest body of state authority of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1936 to 1991. Based on the principle of unified power, it was the only branch of government in the So ...

in 1952. She served as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet until 1960 and was awarded the title of

shortly before her death in 1973. Tarasova died on 5 April 1973 and was interred at the

Vvedenskoye Cemetery Vvedenskoye Cemetery ( rus, Введенское кладбище, p=vʲːɪˈdʲenskəjə) is a historic cemetery in Lefortovo District of Moscow in Russia. Until 1918 it was mainly a burial ground for the Catholic and Protestant communities ...

. In 1975, a ship, the MV ''Alla Tarasova'', was named after her.

Filmography

* '' Raskolnikow'' (1923) * '' The Storm'' (1933) * ''

'' (1937) * '' Guilty Without Guilt'' (1945) * ''

'' (1953) * '' A Long Happy Life'' (1966)

References

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. .

External links

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