Stefaniya Stanyuta

Stefanija Michajłaŭna Staniuta (Belarusian: Стэфанія Міхайлаўна Станюта; 30 April 1905 – 6 November 2000) was a Belarus–Soviet theater and movie actress.

[1] Stefanija was born on April 30, 1905, in Minsk in the family of the famous Belarusian artist Michaś Staniuta.

[2] As a child, she happened to attend the official meeting of Tsar Nicholas II with the Belarusian people.

[3] In 1926 she graduated from the Belarusan Drama Studio under the Moscow Art Theater (class of Valentin Smyshliayev and Sofia Giatsyntova).

[2] Since 1932 and until the end of her life Stefanija Staniuta worked at the Janka Kupala National Academic Theatre in Minsk.