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Varvara Myasnikova
Варвара Мясникова
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5 October 1900 - 25 April 1978
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Remember Anka, the machine gunner. Chapaev pictures The one that came out in 1934? This role, as well as many other diverse roles, was played by the legend of Soviet cinema and theater, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Varvara Sergeevna Myasnikova. The most interesting thing is that this role was invented for Barbara by her husband - director Sergey Vasiliev, because in the script there was no such heroine. According to another version, Stalin himself insisted that a love line appear in the picture,
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Remember Anka, the machine gunner.
Chapaev pictures The one that came out in 1934? This role, as well as many other diverse roles, was played by the legend of Soviet cinema and theater, Honored Artist of the RSFSR Varvara Sergeevna Myasnikova. The most interesting thing is that this role was invented for Barbara by her husband - director Sergey Vasiliev, because in the script there was no such heroine. According to another version, Stalin himself insisted that a love line appear in the picture, although in fact, novels were strictly forbidden in the Chapaev division. It is believed that the image of Anka is written off from a nurse who carried the wounded from the battlefield, and then began shooting with a machine gun. And the name of this heroine got from the widow Furmanov.
Barbara was born in St. Petersburg, in 1900. Her father was an employee and her mother was a housekeeper. In addition to Varvara, her brother grew up in the family, he and their mother subsequently died in besieged Leningrad during the war.
Barbara studied at the women's gymnasium, and then, after graduating from the Institute of Living Word, entered in 1922 as an actress in the Experimental Theater. In 1925, after the Experimental Theatre closed due to lack of funds, the actress moved to the Leningrad Bolshoi Drama Theatre. Another three years later – the next transition, this time to the film studio “Lenfilm”.
She made her film debut in 1928 in the film Engineer Elagin. Then there were her works in the films “Paris shoemaker”, “Man with a briefcase”, “Lyagavy”, “Personal business”, “Chapaev”, “Volochaev days”, “Defense of Tsaritsyn”. In 1947, the legendary film Cinderella was released, where Barbara played the role of the Good Fairy. Then there were two more films: Captain's Daughter and Moo-moo. In May 1949, Myasnikova moved to the Mosfilm film studio and at the same time worked in the Theatre-Studio of the film actor. She died in April 1978 and was buried in the Serafimov Cemetery of St. Petersburg, next to her brother’s grave. /