Background
Sats, Natalia was born in Irkutsk, Siberia. Daughter of the composer Il’ia Sats. Wife of Marshal Mikhail Tukhachevskii.
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Natalia Il’inishna Sats
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Graduated in 1954 from the Moscow Russian University of Theatre Arts (Institute of Theatrical Art).
Career
In 1917, graduated from the Skriabin School of Music. One of the founders of the first theatre for children, the Mossovet Children’s Theatre, 1918. From 1920-1936, directorand artistic director of the Moscow Children’s Theatre.
At the centre of Moscow cultural life during the 1930s. After her husband’s arrest and execution, she too was arrested, tried in secret, and sent to a labour camp in Siberia as the ‘wife of an enemy of the people’. Set free after Stalin’s death in 1953.
After 16 years in the prisons and camps, she returned broken and in poor health, but continued teaching and working in her theatre. Wrote several books: Teatr Dlia Detei (Theatre for Children), 1925, Nash Pul', 1932, Deli Prikhodiat v Teatr, 1961, and Volshebnye Ochki, 1965.
