Varvara Myasnikova

[1] In 1934, she married Sergei Vasilyev, film director, editor and screenwriter, who was also the screenwriter and director of Chapayev (Чапаев), that year, in which Myasnikova played Anka, a machine gun operator; her role would inspire girls from the Soviet Union to volunteer in the Red Army, like Nina Onilova.

In the same year, she was awarded the title of Emeritus Artist of the Soviet Union for her role in Chapayev, at the Moscow International Film Festival.

[3][1] In 1947, Myasnikova played the Fairy Godmother in the feature Cinderella (Золушка), by Nadezhda Kocheverova and Mikhail Chapiro, but her participation is very limited in the production.

[1] In 1959, she played in Vladimir Kaplunovski's The Captain's Daughter and in the adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's novel, Mumu, by Yevgeny Teterin (1959).

Myasnikova died in Moscow on April 22, 1978, at the age of 74; her body was buried in the Serafimovskoe Cemetery in St. Petersburg, next to her mother and brother.