Background
SOBOLEVA, Valentina was born in 1903.
SOBOLEVA, Valentina was born in 1903.
1921-1924 studied at Leningrad Institute of Stagecraft.
1925-1928 at Leningrad 1st Arts Studio. 1929-1934 at Gorky Bolshoy Drama Theater, Leningrad. 1935-1937 at Central Theater of the Red Army, Moscow.
1937-1951 at Saratov Drama Theater. 1951-1956 at Gorky Bolshoy Drama Theater, Leningrad. Roles: Elisabeta in Schiller’s “Don Carlos”.
Lady Anne in Shakespeare's “Richard Ш”. Anna in the stage version of Tolstoy's “Anna Karenina”. Nadezhda Monakhova in Gorky's “Varvary” (The Barbarians).
Masha in Chekhov's “Tri sestry” (The Three Sisters). Nina in Lermontov’s “Maskarad” (Masquerade). Sofya Kovalevskaya in the Brother Tur’s “Tsel zhizni” (The Aim of Life).
Miss Dudgeon in Shaw’s “The Devil’s Disciple”. Aleksandra Vasilevna in Dovzhenko’s “Zhizn v tsvetu” (Life in Flower), etc.