Marija capnist

Marija Kapnist on a Ukrainian postage stamp from 2014

Marija Rostyslawiwna Kapnist ( Ukrainian Марія Ростиславівна Капніст , Russian Мария Ростиславовна Капнист Marija Rostislawowna Kapnist ; born March 22, ^jul. / 4. April  1914 ^greg. In St. Petersburg , Russian Empire ; † 25. October 1993 in Kiev , Ukraine ) was a Soviet - Ukrainian film actress .

family

Coat of arms of the Kapnist family

Marija Kapnist comes from the old, Greek-born Kapnist family. Her father Rostyslaw Kapnist ( Ростислав Ростиславович Капніст , 1875-1921), was a noble landowner and antique collector and her great-grandfather Petro Kapnist was the brother of the writer Vasily Kapnist . On the mother's side, her family goes back to the ataman of the Zaporozhian Cossacks Iwan Sirko .

Life

Marija was born in Saint Petersburg and lived the first years of her life in a beautiful house on the English Promenade ( Англи́йская на́бережная ) on the banks of the Great Neva . After the life in the city became more and more difficult due to the October Revolution , the family moved to Sudak on the Black Sea coast on the Crimean peninsula . After her father was shot dead by the Bolsheviks and their house destroyed in the winter of 1921 , the rest of the family was left penniless. After a few years the red terror spread to all family members. With the help of Crimean Tatars , Marija and her mother managed to escape from Sudak in Crimean Tatar costume.

At the age of 16, Marjia Kapnist lived again in Petersburg, which was now called Leningrad. There she was accepted at the Leningrad Pushkin Theater a year later and after its closure went to the Russian State Institute of Performing Arts .

The impression that conditions had returned to normal was deceptive, because after the death of Sergei Kirov , a close friend of the Kapnist family, in December 1934, the Stalinist purges began and she had to leave the city due to her aristocratic origins. The young actress spent the following years first in Kiev, then in Batumi and finally again in Leningrad. At the beginning of 1941, the now 27-year-old was sentenced to 8 years of imprisonment in the camp for “anti-Soviet propaganda and agitation”, which was later extended to 15 years. She spent the following years in gulags in Siberia , Karaganda , Dscheskasgan and Yenisseisk , among others , during which she was exposed to severe reprisals, beatings, nocturnal interrogations and unhealthy hard work in mines. In Siberia she met the Polish engineer Jan Wolkonski and later became the mother of a daughter, whom she named after the heroine from Gorky's story Makar Tschudra Radda . Marija's daughter was sent to a kindergarten in the camp. There Marija witnessed how a teacher beat and insulted her daughter, whereupon she beat the teacher. She was then sentenced to another ten years in the camp, and her daughter Raddu was sent to a children's home. In 1958, the Supreme Court overturned her convictions and the case was suspended without a crime. After her rehabilitation, however, Marija was so marked by imprisonment that she no longer recognized herself in the mirror. 42-year-old Marija looked like a wrinkled old woman and had thoughts of suicide .

After 15 years in bondage, Marija Kapnist moved to Kiev and had to survive there, initially homeless. In order to earn at least some money, she worked as a masseuse and caretaker. When she was standing at a cinema one day, she was discovered by the young film director Jurij Lyssenko ( Юрій Семенович Лисенко , 1910-1994) for the film. The success of Tavria drew the attention of many directors, so that from then on she had a steady livelihood as a film actress. In her further life she played mostly dark, tough women, witches, sorceresses, a mysterious countess and similar roles in 75 feature films.

After going to the cinema in October 1993, she went home in the evening and, due to a claustrophobia developed in camp detention , instead of going through an underpass, she crossed the busy Victory Prospectus in Kiev, where she was hit by a car. During her subsequent stay in hospital, she caught a cold and died at the age of 79 in a Kiev hospital due to complications. Marija Kapnist was buried in the family cemetery in Velyka Obuchiwka ( Велика Обухівка ), in Poltava Oblast .

Filmography

• 1958: Tavria - Abbess
• 1959: Iwanna - a nun (not featured in the credits)
• 1959: The Flying Ship - Sorceress (not listed in captions)
• 1960: Roman and Francesca
• 1960: Far from motherland - Madame Duval
• 1961: For two rabbits - the lady in the illusion (not featured in the credits)
• 1961: Dmytro Gorizvit
• 1962: We, two men - one passenger (an old woman with a goose)
• 1963: I wanted to fish
• 1963: Silver Trainer - Maid (uncredited)
• 1964: Key from Heaven - laboratory assistant
• 1964: Lushka is a milliner
• 1965: Attention from citizens and organizations - the old woman
• 1965: There are no unknown soldiers - a vigilant citizen (uncredited)
• 1965: I want to believe it
• 1967: War and Peace - Lady on the Ball (not in the opening credits)
• 1967: Big trouble because of a little boy - Eva, pomrezh
• 1968: Mistake Honore de Balzac - cousin Betty (not in captions)
• 1969: Sons go to battle - wife of Khariton's grandfather
• 1970: At the far end of the kingdom ... - passenger plane and maid of honor in orange (uncredited)
• 1970: Olesya - Manuilicha
• 1970: Peace to the huts - war to the palaces - nun
• 1970: Prisoners of Beaumont - Prisoner (uncredited)
• 1971: where are you, knight? - Praskovya Ilyinichna, neighbor of Kovalchuk and Golubchik
• 1972: Missing letter - witch
• 1972: Ruslan and Ljudmila - Naina (credits: Maria Kapnist-Serko)
• 1973: being afraid of fear - there is no happiness
• 1973: The old fortress - Ranevskaya
• 1974: bronze bird - Sofya Pavlovna, countess, housekeeper of Count Karagaev
• 1975: love at first sight - sorceress
• 1976: Memory of the Earth - Baba Orysia
• 1976: Tabor goes to heaven - Izergil
• 1977: If you go ... - Aunt Marfa
• 1977: Soft-boots actress
• 1977: Soldiers - Marina
• 1978: Guarneri Quartet - Countess
• 1979: King Stach's wild hunt - housekeeper
• 1979: Circus Circle - grandmother
• 1979: Gypsy - an old gypsy
• 1980: Piggy Bank customer Kokarelya Countess (not published)
• 1981: Andrew and the Evil Wizard - the old woman
• 1982: Return of the Butterfly landlady
• 1982: Smile from Nechipovka - Seketa
• 1983: comic lovers or love affairs by Sir John Falstaff - Lady in Veil
• 1983: Evenings on a farm near Dikanka - old woman at a wedding
• 1984: Volodkas Leben is a teacher for German
• 1984: Chance - Militsa Fyodorovna
• 1984: Ivanko and the King Poganin - the owl of Civetta (in titles - Marina Kapnist)
• 1985: The Temptation of Don Juan
• 1986: The full moon. nocturne
• 1986: Gold chain - guest of Everest from Hanover (not in captions)
• 1986: Premiere in Sosnovka - costume designer of the regional theater
• 1986: Next to you - the companion at school
• 1987: Farewell to the Zamoskvoretskaya gangsters ... - Baba Rosa
• 1988: The Story of a Billiards Team - Fortune Teller Amanda
• 1988: a man for a young woman - Nadyrov
• 1988: New adventures of the Yankees at the court of King Artu - Fatum / Knight / Abbess
• 1988: Glade of fairy tales - stewardess / marriage counselor / grandmother with one child
• 1988: Pushcha - housekeeper
• 1989: The Art of Living in Odessa - Manya
• 1989: Studies on Vrubel
• 1989: Seromaniac
• 1990: witch - witch
• 1990: Two cartridges for the mammoth
• 1991: Anna Karamazoff - the grandmother Sonia
• 1991: Loch - the winner of the water - Mafioso
• 1991: Labeled - Grandmother in the shoe store
• 1991: Oge - an old political prisoner
• 1991: Mentally
• 1992: White clothes - nurse in Tumanova
• 1992: Heart of three - old Senora Solano
• 1993: Chance (short) - old woman
• 1994: Dark Waters - Mother Superior
• 1994: Parabola of Ref.

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Honors

• 1988 - Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR
• 2014 - On her 100th birthday, a plaque was put up in Kiev to commemorate her. The Ukrainian Post issued a stamp on the occasion.

Web links

• Marija Kapnist in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Entry on Marija Kapnist in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine (Ukrainian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Entry on Rostyslaw Kapnist in the Encyclopedia of Modern Ukraine ; accessed on April 2, 2018 (Ukrainian)
2. ↑ ^{a b c} The main role of Marija Kapnist on day.kyiv.ua , December 23, 2014; accessed on April 2, 2018 (Ukrainian)
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} biography of Marija Kapnist  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on 1576.com.ua ; accessed on April 2, 2018 (Ukrainian)  
4. ↑ ^{a b} Profile of Marija Kapnist on kinopoisk.ru ; accessed on April 2, 2018 (Russian)
5. ↑ ^{a b} A memorial plaque for the actress Marija Kapnist will be opened in Kiev ( memento of the original from October 9, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Cultural Industry Information Agency website; accessed on April 2, 2018 (Ukrainian)