Anastasiya Georgievskaya

Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya was a character actress of Moscow Art Theatre, who appeared as a teacher in the popular Soviet TV series "Bolshaya Peremena" (1972), and also co-starred opposite Igor Gorbachyov and Yuriy Tolubeev in The Inspector-General (1952). She was born Anastasiya Pavlovna Georgiyevskaya on November 7, 1914, in Orel, Russian Empire (now Orel, Russia). Young Georgiyevskaya became an orphan at the early age of three. She was raised in an orphanage, and was trained to be a metal-worker for a Soviet industry, albeit she had a dream of being an actress. In 1930 she moved to Moscow, pursuing her dream. From 1931 - 1936 she studied at Soviet State Institute of Theatrical Art (GITIS), graduating in 1936 as actress. From 1936 to 1990 Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya was a permanent member of the troupe at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). There her stage partners were such renown Russian actors as Olga Knipper-Chekhova, Ivan Moskvin, Alla Tarasova, Anatoli Ktorov, Mark Prudkin, Olga Androvskaya, Nikolay Khmelyov, Mikhail Yanshin, Aleksey Gribov, Boris Livanov, Mikhail Kedrov, Viktor Stanitsyn, Angelina Stepanova, Vasili Toporkov, Mikhail Bolduman, Pavel Massalsky, and the next generation of MKhAT actors - Kira Golovko, Iya Savvina, Alla Pokrovskaya, Anastasiya Voznesenskaya, Irina Miroshnichenko, Oleg Efremov Boris Smirnov, Oleg Tabakov, Andrey Myagkov, Vladimir Kashpur, Viktor Sergachyov, Vyacheslav Nevinnyy, Stanislav Lyubshin, Sergey Sazontev, Avangard Leontev, Igor Vasilev, and others. Georgiyevskaya was a member of the board at Moscow Art Theatre (MKhAT). Her most acclaimed stage performance at Moscow Art Theatre was as Natasha in 'The Three Sisters' (1940), and later she was regarded for her appearances in various comedies. Anastasiya Georgiyevskaya received the Stalin's Prize (1951), and was designated People's Actress of the USSR (1968). She died under mysterious circumstances on December 9, 1990, in her apartment in Moscow, and was laid to rest in Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, Russia.