Alla Alexandrovna Kazanskaya (15 June 1920 – 25 June 2008) was a Russia

Russia

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n stage and film actress. She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

. 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.

Kazanskaya was the fourth wife of director Boris Barnet who committed suicide in 1965. Their daughter Olga Barnet

Olga Barnet

Olga Borisovna Barnet is a Russian actress who works at the Moscow Art Theatre. The daughter of director Boris Barnet and actress Alla Kazanskaya, she made her film debut as Mother in Andrey Tarkovsky's Solaris ....

 is also an actress. Kazanskaya's most notable film appearance was in the Academy Award-winning drama Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun is a 1994 film by Russian director and actor Nikita Mikhalkov. The film depicts the story of a senior Red Army officer and his family during the Great Purge of the late 1930s in the Stalinist Soviet Union...

(1994). Among her many pupils at the Shchukin Theatrical School were Sergei Makovetsky

Sergei Makovetsky

Sergei Makovetsky is a Russian movie actor.- Filmography :Films:*1982 - To take live!*1990 - Sons of Bitches*1992 - Trotsky - Lev Trotsky*1994 - Burnt by the Sun - Captain*1996 - Of Freaks and Men*1997 - Three Stories...

 and Yulia Rutberg.