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 – 5 April 1973 in Moscow

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) was a leading actress of Constantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre

Moscow Art Theatre

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 from the late 1920s onward.

A title role in Anna Karenina

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(1937) was her most resounding success. She appeared to mixed reviews as Katerina in the screen version of Ostrovsky's The Storm (1934) and as Catherine I

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 in the movie Peter the Great (1937). Tarasova toured London

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 and United States

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 with the Moscow Art Theatre in 1922-1924 to much international acclaim. She was a recipient of five Stalin State Prizes (in 1941, twice in 1946, 1947, and 1949), two Orders of Lenin

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 and the honorary title

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 of People's Artist of the USSR

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 in 1937.

Tarasova joined the Communist Party

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 in 1954, having already been elected to the Supreme Soviet of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics in 1952. She served as a deputy of the Supreme Soviet until 1960 and was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labour shortly before her death in 1973.

Tarasova died on 5 April 1973 and was interred at the Vvedenskoye Cemetery.

Sources

• Solovyova, Inna. 1999. "The Theatre and Socialist Realism, 1929-1953." Trans. Jean Benedetti. In A History of Russian Theatre. Ed. Robert Leach and Victor Borovsky. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 325-357. ISBN 0-521-43220-0.

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