Alexandra Panova is a popular Soviet theater and film actress. He has the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR. Her career occurred in the 1940-1970s. Viewers can remember her from the paintings "Resurrection", "Crime and Punishment", "Cipollino". From this article you will learn about her biography and the most striking works.
Childhood and youth
Alexandra Panova was born in Moscow. She was born in the Russian Empire in 1899.
After school, she decided to fulfill her childhood dream. Sasha went to the actress, enrolling in the capital's theater studio, opened at the Sukhodolskaya Theater.
Work on stage
Actress Alexandra Panova began her creative career on the stage of the capital's Satire Theater. Then she was involved in the productions of the Theater of Miniatures of Leningrad and Moscow, the Zamoskvoretsky Theater, the AUCCTU Theater, the Review Theater of the Press House.
From 1936 to 1945 she played at the Maxim Gorky Bolshoi Drama Theater in Leningrad. In the same period, she received the title of Honored Artist of the RSFSR.
After the Great Patriotic War and until the very end of her career, she worked in the Theater Studio of a film actor in Moscow.
She died in the fall of 1981 at the age of 82. Despite her venerable age, she did not want to retire, continuing to take part in theatrical productions, appearing on the big screen.
Movie roles
In the movie, Alexander Panova debuted quite late. She played her first role only at 37 years old.
The role of the cashier she got in the comedy of Isidor Simkov and Grigory Alexandrov "Circus". It was the legendary Soviet pre-war movie with Lyubov Orlova, which was remembered by many viewers. Panova also received her portion of fame, although for a while she appeared on the screen.
After the war, she played Eupraxia Aristarkhovna Firsikova in the musical romantic comedy of Igor Savchenko "Ancient Vaudeville". Her character is the eldest girl who invites the hussar to stand in a house located opposite the windows of the main character Lyubushka. The picture tells about the military who fill Moscow after the victory in World War II over Napoleon.
It is worth noting that in most films Alexandra Panova played small roles and remained in the history of Soviet cinema as the master of the episode.
For example, in the military historical drama of Sergei Gerasimov, "The Young Guard" appears in the image of the mother of Lyubov Shevtsova Efrosinya Mironovna. Sophia Savvishnu plays in another drama by Gerasimov "Country Doctor", the servant of Ladygin Parash in the comedy of Alexander Stolbov "An Ordinary Man", the school director Antonina Ivanovna Boltyanskaya in the melodrama "A Tale of First Love".
Among the most memorable roles of Alexandra Panova, there are several works in the film adaptations of classical works of Russian literature. In the psychological drama by Mikhail Schweitzer "Resurrection", based on the novel of the same name by Leo Tolstoy, she plays Agrafena Petrovna.
Many remember the image she created in the film, based on the biography of Chekhov, Sergei Yutkevich, "The plot for a short story." This is a detailed story of the creation of the play "The Seagull" by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, and then the ensuing failure of the performance during the premiere on the stage of the Alexandria Theater.
The film also focuses on the writer’s relationship with another playwright and prose writer Ignatius Nikolayevich Potapenko, as well as with a close friend Lidia Stakhievna Mizinova, who became the prototype of the image of Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull.
Alexandra Panova in this picture appears in the role of Chekhov's mother Evgenia Yakovlevna.
Finally, the heroine of our article played a vivid role in the Soviet-Italian musical tale of Tamara Lisitsian "Cipollino". Her character is Countess Cherry. In this tape, Alexandra Petrovna was lucky to work on the same set with Vladimir Basov, Rina Zelenaya, Georgy Vitsin, Alexei Smirnov, Natalya Krachkovskaya. Interestingly, the role of the storyteller in the film was played by the author of the story about Cipollino Gianni Rodari.
Panova continued to work until the last. In 1977, she appeared in an episodic role in the musical comedy of Vladimir Grammatikov, "The Mustached Nanny." In the year of her death, the drama of Inessa Selezneva "Thank you all!"
Movie dubbing
The actress was also known as a dubbing master. Especially often she got to voice cartoon characters.
Her voice says Grandma in the animated film "Mashenka and the Bear", Magpie - in the "Mouse Song", Jay - in the "Forest Travelers".