Sofia Giatsintova, the People's Artist of the USSR (1955), received the Stalin Prize (1947, for her role of Varvara Mikhailovna in the film The Vow, 1946), as well as numerous state awards, among them the Order of Lenin (1965, 1975).

The family adored theatre; Vladimir Giatsintov was a member of the Moscow Shakespearean Society and an amateur playwright.

Among her best known parts there were those of Maria in Shakespeare's Twelfth Night (1917, 1933), Sima (Crank, by Alexander Afinogenov, 1929), Nelly (Humiliated and Insulted by Fyodor Dostoevsky, 1932).

[2] In 1946 Giatsintova starred in Mikheil Chiaureli's The Vow as Varvara Petrovna, a woman who travels to Moscow on foot to give the beloved Vladimir Lenin the letter written by common people, only to find that the great revolutionary leader has just died.

She finds herself on the Red Square and gives the letter to Joseph Stalin instead, right after he's proclaimed his allegiance to the Lenin's cause, speaking at the funeral.