Lidija Vladimirovna Wertinskaya

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Lidija Wladimirowna Wertinskaja ( Russian Лидия Владимировна Вертинская ; born Zirgwawa , Russian Циргвава ; born April 14, 1923 in Harbin , Republic of China ; † December 31, 2013 in Moscow ) was a Soviet painter and actress .

Early years

Lidija Wertinskaja was the daughter of Wladimir Konstantinowitsch († 1933) and Lidija Pawlowna Zirgwawa, b. Fomina, born in Manchuria , where her paternal grandparents of Georgian descent had moved. Grandfather Konstantin Zirgwawa was initially an officer, but then turned to agriculture and beekeeping. Vladimir Zirgwawa, who had attended school in his parents' homeland, initially found it difficult to gain a foothold in China, but ultimately got a job in the administration of the East China Railway .

Lydia's maternal great-grandfather lived in Dauria , his daughter moved with her husband, a Don Cossack , in Manchuria. In Harbin, Lidija Fomina met her future husband.

After his death, mother and daughter moved to Yantai , where the young Lidija initially lived in a nunnery. Initially, she received support from her godfather, Vladimir Karseladze, who, however, emigrated to the Soviet Union in 1936. On the initiative of her mother, Lidija went to see her aunt in Shanghai . There she attended an English school and then worked in the mail order business. In 1940 she met the artist and singer Alexander Nikolajewitsch Wertinski , who was more than 33 years her senior , and on April 26, 1942 they got married in Shanghai, despite her mother's concerns about the age difference. Since living conditions deteriorated as a result of the Japanese invasion , the couple made a petition to Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Molotov . After the positive decision, they moved to the Soviet Union with their daughter Marianna and Lidija's mother on November 4, 1943. In 1946 the family got a large apartment in Moscow, where Lidija lived until her death.

Artistic career

Wertinskaja studied at the Surikow Art Institute in Moscow until 1955 . Due to her interest in engraving , she worked as an artist in a printing house, but also took part in exhibitions with her own works. After Alexander Wertinski's death in 1957, she earned her living by selling paintings. Her preferred subject was depictions of nature.

In parallel to her training, Wertinskaja's film career began in the early 1950s as the actress of a phoenix in Alexander Ptushkos Sadko's adventure . She had no acting experience, but was only hired because of her photogenic face, according to her own statements. In addition to the portrayal of a duchess in Don Quixote (1957) and Mrs. Marta in The Girl from Kiev (1958), she was seen in two fairy tale films by Alexander Rous in the following years . After In the Kingdom of Magic Mirrors (1963), in which she gave a leading supporting role , Wertinskaya ended her cinematic work.

In 2004 she published her autobiography Синяя птица любви ( Sinjaja ptitsa ljubwi ).

Private

Marianna, the couple's first daughter, was born on July 28, 1943 in Shanghai. She became an actress and is in turn the mother of the artist and television presenter Alexandra Wertinskaya and Daria Khmelnitskaya. Lidija Wertinskaja was born through Alexandra, great-grandchildren Vasilisa (* 1999) and Lidija (* 2010).

The second daughter, Anastassija (* 1944), also took up the acting profession. She is the mother of the actor and entrepreneur Stepan Michalkow, as well as the grandmother of Alexandra (* 1992), Wassili (* 1999) and Peter Michalkow (* 2002).

Lidija Wertinskaja died at the age of 90 after a long illness in a Moscow clinic and was buried on January 3, 2014 in the Novodevichy Cemetery.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Biography of Lidija Wertinskajas on stuki-druki.com (Russian), accessed on June 5, 2020
  2. ↑ a b c d Biography of Lidija Wertinskajas on 24smi.org (Russian), accessed on June 5, 2020
  3. ↑ Lidija Wertinskaja's biography at kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on June 5, 2020
  4. ↑ Lidija Wertinskaja's filmography on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on June 5, 2020
  5. ↑ Синяя птица любви on books.google.de , accessed on June 5, 2020
  6. ↑ Синяя птица любви on labirint.ru (Russian), accessed June 5, 2020
  7. ↑ Marianna Wertinskaja's biography at kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on June 5, 2020
  8. ↑ Biography of Anastassija Wertinskajas on kino-teatr.ru (Russian), accessed on June 5, 2020
  9. ↑ Синяя птица любви on labirint.ru (Russian), accessed June 5, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Wertinskaya, Lidija Vladimirovna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Zirgwawa, Lidija Vladimirovna (maiden name); Вертинская, Лидия Владимировна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet painter and actress
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Harbin , Republic of China
DATE OF DEATH December 31 2013
Place of death Moscow