Maria Kapnist biography photo

Born on March 9 22 in St. Petersburg - died on October 25 in Kyiv. Soviet and Ukrainian actress. Honored Artist of the Ukrainian SSR from an old noble family. On the island of Zant in the Ionian Sea are the ruins of the first tribal castle of Kapnissos capnists - from Greek. Stomatello Kapnissos, which was granted in the year of the Count, the ruler of the Venetian Republic Aloiisi Machenigi, was distinguished by special courage and heroism in battles with the Turks for the independence of the Greek Islands.

The grandson of Stomatello, Py - Khristoforovich fought with the Turks on the side of the Russian Emperor Peter I, donkey in Ukraine and soon died. His son Vasily, having rewriting his surname to the capnist, became famous in battles near Ochakov, being the commander of the Cossack troops. For combat merits, Empress Elizaveta Petrovna highly granted Vasily Kapnist the clan land in the Poltava region.

Marietta was the fifth and last child in the family. The older sister - Elizabeth G. Elder brothers - Vasily G. Until seven, Marietta lived in St. Petersburg in a family mansion on the English embankment. After the October Revolution, the family moved to Sudak. Young Mary had governesses, teachers, a chic mansion in Sudak for 70 rooms. There, in the year, her father was shot. In the same year, the sister of Elizabeth died.

Brother Vasily died in the year, and Andrei, after the execution of his father, was taken to emigration and his further fate remained unknown. Their house in Sudak was destroyed. The surviving family members had to hide. The Crimean Tatars, who honored the memory of the Count of Kapnist, helped her mother and her flee from pike perch in their national clothes.

Pushkin, and after its closure, at the Leningrad Theater Institute named after A., ​​the teachers promised her a great future, allowed her to go out in masses on a professional scene. However, in the year, due to noble origin, the capnist was excluded from the institute with the prohibition of living in Leningrad. She graduated from the Kyiv financial and economic college.

She worked as an accountant in Kyiv, then in Batumi. Maria Kapnist in his youth arrest and the conclusion on August 27 of the year the capnist was arrested, and on June 6, he was sentenced by a special meeting by 8 years in order to labor camps under article a “espionage in favor of foreign intelligence during the war”. The first term was serving in Karlag in the same hut with Anna Timiryova, with whom she was friends until the end of her life.

Then, up to a year in Steplas, where she worked with Tatyana Okunevskaya. Maria Kapnist recalled: “In one of the camps of Karaganda, the special migrants found and we, we, camps, founded this place - we were driven out at night. My braids had already cut off I already knew the price of night interrogations well, when you are either blinded and burned with a sparkling bright lamp, or thrown into an ice bath.

I knew what happens when you were noticed by the authorities in the women's camps, there were more terrible ones than in male. In Karlag, I met Anna Vasilyevna Temirova, short, an unusually beautiful woman - roots from Terek Cossacks. We made friends, and then I found out that she was the wife of Kolchak with her, we staged night performances in the hut, we made sagan bricks. At first it did not go out, and then they got a good job for a day.

Exhausting work in unbearable heat, water a little, in the barracks at night is unbearable. The head of the camp Shalva Japaridze Okhoch to camp women. At night he sent a “matchmaker” from ours, camps, and she brought him appointed. Somehow such a thing comes to the hut and says: "Shalva is dying, asks you to write a letter to his daughter." I went when he tried to grab me, hit him from fear and hatred and Shalva decided to take revenge.

The convoy threw me into the men's camp with criminals. I hid, I'm waiting. The elder is firmly fits. And where my strength took. She shouted: “The worships of the smelly! War is coming! Your brothers are dying at the front, and you breathe parashes, writhe in the mud and the weak are mocking. I would have bullets on the bunks, I think in desperation: I won’t survive.” I got free, lived in the Kazachinsky district of the Krasnoyarsk Territory.

She was forced to persuade her name for her name, but her name was not Marietta, but she was not a fact that her name was not for Marieta, but her name And the decision of the court was further condemned as Maria. In the year, she was completely rehabilitated and all sentences regarding her were canceled in connection with the "lack of corpus delicti." After the release, the capnist settled in Kyiv, where she worked as a masseur and a janitor.

There was nowhere to live, and she spent the night at stations, in squares, telephone booths. Maria Kapnist in the cinema once she stood in Fufike near the cash desk of the cinema, the young director Yuri Lysenko approached her and with the words “What film are you starving in? Maria Kapnist in the film "Tavria" further directors of the Dovzhenko film studio began to actively attract the capnist to filming.In the year, Alexander Ptushko offered her one of the main roles - Naina - in his film -storyteller Ruslan and Lyudmila.

During the filming, there was an incident that the capnist experienced very difficult. According to the script in the film, a wolf was supposed to appear. But the bird wanted to replace it with a tiger. Mary was not warned about this. She went into the pavilion and heard a growl. She turned around, and saw the Tiger prepared for the jump. It was this view that the camera captured.

The beast turned and fled into the cage. When the bird approached her with the words: “Well, Kapnist, you're well done! Maria Kapnist in the film "Ruslan and Lyudmila" gained fame with her characteristic images - Countess, Dam, mysterious old women, witches, gypsies and sorcerers. In the famous adventure film "Bronze Bird", Maria Kapnist appeared in the image of a mysterious, craman.

In the “new adventures of the Yankee at the court of King Arthur” she performed three roles at once - Fatum, Knight and Igumeni. Maria Kapnist in the film "Bronze Bird" Maria Kapnist in the film "Gypsies" Maria Kapnist in the film "New Adventures of the Yankee at the City of King Arthur" is worth noting the main role played by Maria Kapnist in the fantastic comedy of Alexander Mayorov, "Chance", where she appeared as a great -leading lady, princess of Persian Militsa Fedorovna.

In gratitude, he endowed the earthling with an elixir of youth. Constantly using the elixir, diamond and his friend Militsa survived until the 20th century. It is time to return youth again, and the diamond returns to the city of the Great Guslyar, where a secret remedy is stored. However, the secret was disclosed, and several residents of the city had the case to experience the action of the “Martian potion”.

Maria Kapnist in the movie "Chance" Maria Kapnist often gave charity concerts. She achieved the return of the name of one of her glorious ancestors, writer Vasily Kapnist. His flying was widely noted, the poet’s works were published and even included in the school curriculum.

The death of Maria Kapnist, due to work in prison under the ground, the capnist developed claustrophobia, because of which she did not use underground transitions, which caused her death. In early October, Maria Kapnist fell under the wheels of a car, crossing one of the most lively Kyiv highways - Victory Avenue, at the film studio named after The treatment of injuries was complicated by the edema of the lungs.

She died on October 25 in the Kyiv Alexander October Hospital. He was buried in the family cemetery in the village of Velikaya Obukhovka, Poltava region. Of all the close relatives, only her brother Gregory, who died in Yaroslavl, lived to the advance of all relatives. In December, with the support of the leader of the Kharkov noble assembly, Alexei Ivanitsky, a public organization “Passionist Memory Fund”, which was headed by the daughter of actress Radislav, was created.

The father of the daughter is the Polish engineer Jan Volkonsky, he was later shot. Kapnist named her daughter in honor of one of the heroines of Maxim Gorky's story “Makar Mirar”. When Radislav was two years old, she was taken from her mother and placed in Esaulovsky an orphanage in the Krasnoyarsk Territory. Radislav Kapnist said: “When the camp authorities found out that the mother was in a position, she was forced to have an abortion, but her mother refused.

And then she was satisfied with all sorts of torture: they lowered it into an ice bath, doused with cold water. She later told me: "How did you survive? This is generally impossible!"