Background
MASSALITINOVA, Varvara was born on July 29, 1878.
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Varvara Osipovna MASSALITINOVA
Varvara MASSALITINOVA, USSR Actress. People’s Artiste of Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1933. Stalin Prize (1941); two orders.
Education
1901 graduate A.P. Lenskiy’s courses at Moscow Theatrical College.
Career
Acted with amateur circle in Tomsk, specializing in elderly roles. 1901-1919 at Maly Theater in Moscow. 1919-1921 at State Show Theater.
1922-1945 again at Maly Theater. Roles: stage soles; Korobochka in Gogol’s Myortvyye dushi (Dead Souls) (1902). Noncom’s widow in Gogol’s Revizor (The Government Inspector) (19031.
Merchutkina in Chekhov’s Yubiley (The Anniversary) (1904). The Mad Mistress in Ostrovsky’s Groza (The Storm) (1911). Prostakova in Fonvizin’s Nedorosl’ (The Minor) (1923).
Khlyostova in Griboyedov’s Gore ot uma (Woe From Wit) (1938). Film roles: Kabanikha in Ostrovsky’s “Groza”. Vasiliy Buslay’s mother in “Aleksandr Nevskiy”.
Grandmother Akulina Ivanovna in Detstvo Gor’kogo (Gorky’s Childhood) and V lyudyakh (Out in the World).
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Born
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Died
October 20, 1945 (aged 67) -
Nationality
Russia
Awards
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Stalin Prize (1941); two orders.Stalin Prize (1941); two orders.