Larisa Tarkovskaya

Larisa Pavlovna Tarkovskaya (Russian: Лариса Павловна Тарковская, née Yegorkina (Егоркина), from 1958, Kizilova (Кизилова); 1 February 1933 – 19 January 1998) was a Soviet film director and actress.

[1][2] Larisa Pavlovna Yegorkina was born on 1 February 1933 in Moscow, Soviet Union to Pavel Vasilyevich Yegorkin, an engineer and Anna Semyonovna, a seamstress.

Her parents, who were originally from the village of Avdotyinka, Shilovsky District, Ryazan Oblast, had settled in the capital in 1925.

[3] Tarkovsky died of lung cancer in Paris on 29 December 1986 and was buried in January 1987 in the Russian Cemetery in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France.

Tarkovskaya died of cancer[4] in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France, on 19 January 1998 and was laid to rest beside her husband.