Nathalie Ivanovna Kovanko (

Ukrainian Ukrainian may refer to: * Something of, from, or related to Ukraine * Something relating to Ukrainians, an East Slavic people from Eastern Europe * Something relating to demographics of Ukraine in terms of demography and population of Ukraine * So ...

: Наталія Іванівна Кованько,

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: Наталья Ивановна Кованько; 13 September 1899 – 23 May 1967) was a Russian Empire-born

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of the

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.Capua p.187 Born Natalia Ivanovna Kovanko in

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, then part of the

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, in 1919 she emigrated to France following the

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. She married

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, a fellow exile. She later returned to live in

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, where she died in 1967.

Selected filmography

* ' (1925) * ''

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'' (1926) * ''

Volga in Flames ''Volga in Flames'' (French: ''Volga en flammes'') is a 1934 historical adventure film directed by Viktor Tourjansky and starring Albert Prejean, Valéry Inkijinoff and Danielle Darrieux.Driskell p.209 It was made as a co-production between Fran ...

'' (1934)

References

Bibliography

* Michelangelo Capua. ''Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films''. McFarland, 2015.

External links

* 1899 births 1967 deaths Ukrainian people in the Russian Empire Ukrainian film actresses Ukrainian silent film actresses Russian film actresses French film actresses People from Yalta Actors from Kyiv People who emigrated to escape Bolshevism Soviet emigrants to France 20th-century French women {{Ukraine-actor-stub