Alla Kazanskaya

Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya (Russian: Алла Александровна Казанская) (15 June 1920 – 25 June 2008) was a Russian stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow.[1] It was to Kazanskaya that the composer Aram Khachaturian dedicated the Waltz from his incidental music to Lermontov's Masquerade.[2] By the time of her death at age 88, she was the theatre's oldest working actress. She had received the Crystal Turandot, Russia's foremost theatre award in 2007.

In this Eastern Slavic name, the patronymic is Alexandrovna and the family name is Kazanskaya.

Kazanskaya was the fourth wife of director Boris Barnet, who committed suicide in 1965. Their daughter Olga Barnet is also an actress. Kazanskaya's most notable film appearance was in the Academy Award-winning drama Burnt by the Sun (1994).[3]

Awards

References
  1. Казанская Алла: «Эта пиковая дама». День рождения Аллы Казанской
  2. "Masquerade (1941)". Theater Vakhtangov Website. Retrieved 4 September 2014.
  3. Умерла актриса и педагог Алла Казанская
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