Lidiya Vladimirovna Vertinskaya (russian: Лидия Владимировна Вертинская), born Tsirgvava ( ka, წირღვავა; russian: Циргва́ва) (14 April 1923 – 31 December 2013) was a Russian and Georgian actress and artist. Vertinskaya was born of the emigre family of mixed

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origin in

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. Her paternal grandparents moved to

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from

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along with their children while retaining Russian citizenship. Her father Vladimir Konstantinovich Tsirgvava was a Soviet official who served at the

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. He died when Vertinskaya was nine years old. Her mother Lydia Pavlovna Tsirgvava (née Fomina), originally from a

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n family of

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, was a housewife.''Lidiya Vertinskaya (2004)''. The Blue Bird of Love. — Moscow: Vagrius, 452 pages (Memoirs) In 1940 she met the Russian singer

Aleksandr Vertinsky Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky (russian: Александр Николаевич Вертинский, — May 21, 1957) was a Russian and Soviet artist, poet, singer, composer, cabaret artist and actor who exerted seminal influence on the Ru ...

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. Although he was 34 years older than her, they got married in two years. In 1943 they emigrated to the

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. She gave birth to

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(born 1943) and

Anastasiya Vertinskaya Anastasiya Alexandrovna Vertinskaya (russian: link=no, Анастасия Александровна Вертинская, born 19 December 1944, Moscow, Soviet Union) is a Soviet and Russian actress, who came to prominence in the early 1960s ...

(born 1944), both successful Russian actresses. In 1955 she graduated from V. I. Surikov Art Institute and started working as an artist. From 1952 on she also appeared in a number of movies, mostly fairy tales. In 1957 Aleksandr Vertinsky died, and she never married again. In 2004 she published a book of memoirs ''The Blue Bird of Love''. Lidiya Vertinskaya died on 31 December 2013 and was buried at the

Novodevichy Cemetery Novodevichy Cemetery ( rus, Новоде́вичье кла́дбище, Novodevichye kladbishche) is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist ...

in Moscow, near her husband.Lidiya Vertinskaya's tomb
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Filmography

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(1953) as ''The Phoenix'' *

Don Quixote is a Spanish epic novel by Miguel de Cervantes. Originally published in two parts, in 1605 and 1615, its full title is ''The Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha'' or, in Spanish, (changing in Part 2 to ). A founding work of Wester ...

(1957) as ''The Duchess'' * New Adventures of Puss-in-Boots (1958) as ''young witch'' * Kyivlyanka (1958) as ''Frau Marta'' *

Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors ''Kingdom of Crooked Mirrors'' (russian: Королевство кривых зеркал, translit. ''Korolevstvo krivykh zerkal'') is a 1963 Soviet fairy tale film directed by Aleksandr Rou based on the novel, '' Kingdom of Crooked Mirro ...

(1964) as ''Anidag''

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* * 1923 births 2013 deaths Actresses from Harbin Russian film actresses Soviet film actresses Artists from Harbin Actresses from Heilongjiang Russian people of Georgian descent Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery Chinese emigrants to the Soviet Union {{USSR-actor-stub