Alla Kazanskaya

She began her career at the age of 18 at the Vakhtangov State Academic Theatre in Moscow.

[1] Her most notable film appearance was in the Academy Award-winning drama Burnt by the Sun (1994).

[2] Composer Aram Khachaturian dedicated the Waltz from his incidental music to Lermontov's Masquerade to her.

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.