Larissa Ivanovna Kronberg

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Larissa Ivanovna Kronberg , even Larissa Kronberg Sobolewskaja and Larissa Sobolewskaja ( Russian Лариса Ивановна Кронберг , 23. May 1929 in Penza , USSR - 23. April 2017 in Moscow , Russia ), was a Russian-Soviet actress and agent of the KGB .

Life

Kronberg was born in Penza in 1929 as the daughter of a soldier. She first moved to Ufa with her father and graduated in Podolsk . She began her acting training in 1948 with Sergei Gerasimow and his wife Tamara Makarova at the State All-Union Institute for Cinematography . She interrupted her education when she married a Georgian and had a son, and took the surname Sobolevskaya. Their only child later became a drug addict and died young. Kronberg's marriage was divorced before she was 30, and in 1954 she successfully completed her acting training. After graduating, she worked for Mosfilm until 1983 .

At the Cannes International Film Festival in 1955 , Kronberg received the award for best actress for her role as Sina Iwanowa as part of the ensemble in Iossif Cheific 's A Big Family (Большая семья) .

Kronberg was known also by participating in a in 1958 by the KGB staged Honeytrap to the French diplomat Maurice Dejean to blackmail to cooperate. She approached him under the code name Lora, told him about her cruel husband, who was a geologist on research trips in Siberia, and began a relationship with him. Kronberg made sure that her supposed husband, who was also a KGB agent, broke into her apartment and found her in bed with Dejean.

From the beginning of the 1960s, she was in a relationship with the seven and a half years younger world chess champion Michail Tal while he lived in Moscow and was still married to his first wife, Sally Landau.

Kronberg was considered a humorous and cheerful personality, smoked and drank a lot. She spent her last years alone and withdrawn in an apartment in Moscow, where she died on April 23, 2017 after a long illness.

Filmography

  • 1954: a big family
  • 1955: Zvezdy na krylyakh
  • 1956: Poseyali devushki lyon
  • 1957: love and exams
  • 1958: fiery blood
  • 1958: The girl with the guitar
  • 1960: Russkiy suvenir
  • 1962: Still bez miloserdiya
  • 1966: Vystrel
  • 1969: Little crane
  • 1971: Molodye
  • 1974: Vozvrata net
  • 1975: Harsnatsun hyusisits
  • 1977: Priekhali na bankruptcy povara ...
  • 1978: Incognito from Petersburg
  • 1978: Tryasina
  • 1979: Zavtrak na trave
  • 1981: Nemukhinskiye muzykanty
  • 1983: who is knocking on my door?
  • 1984: S mert na vzlyote
  • 1986: Salon krasoty
  • 1986: Vykup
  • 1987: Veruyu v lyubov
  • 1987: Litsom k litsu
  • 1987: Ssuda na brak
  • 1987: Proshchay, shpana zamoskvoretskaya
  • 1991: Prestuplenie lorda Artura

Web links

Individual evidence

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  2. Soviet actress Larisa Kronberg on soviet-art.ru, accessed on January 16, 2019 (English).
  3. a b Gone from the life of Larisa Kronberg on capelino.com, accessed on January 16, 2019 (English).
  4. Кто еще погорел на бабах on expert.ru, 2010, accessed on January 16, 2019 (Russian).
  5. Andrew Soltis: Tal, Petrosian, Spassky and Korchnoi . McFarland, ISBN 978-1-4766-7146-8 , pp. 216 .
  6. Vladimir Fédorovski: Au cœur du Kremlin . Stock, ISBN 2-234-08479-2 .
  7. Sally Landau: Checkmate! The Love Story of Mikhail Tal and Sally Landau. Elk and Ruby Publishing House, Moscow 2019, ISBN 978-5604176962 . Pp. 129-149.
  8. Genna Sosonko : The World Champions I Knew . New In Chess, 2014, ISBN 978-90-5691-484-4 , pp. 176 .
  9. Interview with Larissa Kronberg at fakty.ua, November 9, 2011, accessed on January 16, 2019 (Russian).
  10. Красавица-актриса, агент КГБ, Лариса Кронберг умерла в одиночестве и забвении from ufa.bezformata.com, April 29, 2017, accessed on January 16, 2017 (Russian).