Category
page 1Actresses from the Russian Empire
Faina Ranevskaya
Soviet actress (1896-1984)
Maria Zankovetska
Ukrainian actress (1854–1934)
Vera Kholodnaya
Ukrainian-born actress of Imperial Russian silent cinema (1893–1919)
Alla Nazimova
Russian-American actress, screenwriter and producer (1879–1945)
Olga Knipper
Russian actress (1868–1959)
Anna Sten
Ukrainian-born Soviet and American actress (1908–1993)
Maria Ouspenskaya
Russian actress (1876-1949)
Olga Chekhova
actress (1897-1980)
Maria Yermolova
Russian actress
Alla Tarasova
Russian Soviet actress (1898–1973)
Aleksandra Khokhlova
Russian actor, film director, and screenwriter (1887-1985)
Maria Andreyeva
Russian actress and politician (1868–1953)
Siri von Essen
Finland Swedish actress married to August Strindberg (1850–1912)
Aleksandra Yablochkina
Russian and Soviet actress and drama teacher (1866–1964)
Ester Rachel Kamińska
Polish actress (1870–1925)
Ida Aalberg
Finnish actress (1857–1915)
Lidia Charskaya
Russian and Soviet writer (1875–1937)
Valeria Barsova
Russian opera singer (1892–1967)
Xenia Desni
Ukrainian actress (1894–1954)
Olga Preobrazhenskaya
Russian actress, film director, screenwriter and teacher (1881-1971)
Serafima Birman
Russian actor and theatre director (1890-1976)
Marie Steiner-von Sivers
Anthroposophist (1867-1948)
Vera Michurina-Samoilova
Russian actor (1866-1948)
Anastasia Zuyeva
Soviet Russian actress (1896-1986)
Vera Baranovskaya
actress (1885-1935)
Vera Pashennaya
Russian actress (1887–1962)
Maria Savina
Russian actor (1854-1915)
Alma Lund
Finnish opera singer (1854–1932)
Varvara Massalitinova
Russian and Soviet actress (1878–1945)
Glikeriya Fedotova
Russian actress (1846-1925)
Sandra Milovanoff
Russian-born French actress
Sofja Giatsintova
Russian / Soviet actress (1895–1982)
Amalie Konsa
Estonian actress and singer (1873-1949)
Maria Blumental-Tamarina
Russian actor (1859-1938)
Ida Brander
Swedish actress
Polina Strepetova
Russian actor (1850-1903)
Olga Gzovskaïa
Russian and Soviet theater and film actress (1883-1962)
Antonina Abarinova
Russian opera singer (1842-1901)
Eugenie Leontovich
actress, acting teacher (1900-1993)
Zoya Barantsevich
Russian actor (1896–1953)
Agnieszka Truskolaska
Polish opera singer
Dace Akmentiņa
Latvian actress (1858–1936)
Lydia Kyasht
Russian-British ballet dancer and teacher
Varvara Asenkova
Russian actor (1817-1841)
Lydia Molander
Swedish actress
Yefrosyniya Zarnytska
Ukrainian actor (1867-1936)
Salomea Teschner
Polish actress
Vera Trefilova
Russian dancer (1875–1943)
Elizaveta Shabelskaya-Bork
Russian writer (1855-1917)
Anna Brenko
Russian actor
Lyubov Mlotovskaya
Russian actor
Maria Goricheva
Russian actress
Elizaveta Goreva
Russian actress (1859–1917)
Keni Liptzin
Ukrainian born Yiddish theatre actress, mainly in London and New York (1863-1918)
Evlalia Kadmina
Russian opera singer (1853-1881)