Alla Kazanskaya

Alla A. Kazanskaya was a Russian actress of Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, best known for her film role as Lidiya Stepanovna in Burnt by the Sun (1994), an Academy Award-winning film by director Nikita Mikhalkov. She was born Alla Aleksandrovna Kazanskaya on June 15, 1920, in Russia. From 1935 - 1939 she studied acting at Shchukin Theatrical School of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow, graduating in 1939 from the class of I.M. Tolchanov as an actress. In 1938 she made her Vakhtangov stage debut. Since 1938 Alla A. Kazanskaya has been a permanent member of the Vakhtangov Theatre in Moscow. There her stage partners were such actors as Mikhail Ulyanov, Mikhail Astangov, Ruben Simonov, Boris Zakhava, Vladimir Etush, Varvara Popova, Irina Kupchenko, Natalya Tenyakova, Lyudmila Maksakova, Lyudmila Tselikovskaya, Marianna Vertinskaya, Nina Ruslanova, Yuliya Borisova, Nikolai Plotnikov, Vasiliy Lanovoy, Yuriy Yakovlev, Vyacheslav Shalevich, Andrei Abrikosov, Grigori Abrikosov, Boris Babochkin,