Beatrice Vitoldi
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Beatrice Vitoldi was a Soviet film actress
She was most famous for her only film role as the mother with the baby carriage in the Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkin
and as the first permanent Soviet ambassador in Italy. Beatrice Vitoldi was born in 1895 in Salerno
in Italy. When she was five, her parents emigrated to Riga
where her father worked as an engineer at the Russisch-Baltischen Waggonfabrik (later also known as Russo-Balt
). The family later moved to Saint Petersburg
where her father worked at a machine tool factory. Interested in both arts and politics, she met several Bolsheviks and was also introduced to Sergei Eisenstein
(who incidentally also came to Saint Petersburg from Riga). She was actively involved in the Bolshevik revolution, and worked later as a secretary for the Proletkult
organization. In 1925 in the Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkin, she played the role that made her famous in the Soviet Union. In 1931 she became the first Soviet ambassador in Italy. In 1937 she was recalled to Moscow where she was arrested and tried during the Great Purge
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She was most famous for her only film role as the mother with the baby carriage in the Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkin
The Battleship Potemkin
The Battleship Potemkin , sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm...
and as the first permanent Soviet ambassador in Italy. Beatrice Vitoldi was born in 1895 in Salerno
Salerno
Salerno is a city and comune in Campania and is the capital of the province of the same name. It is located on the Gulf of Salerno on the Tyrrhenian Sea....
in Italy. When she was five, her parents emigrated to Riga
Riga
Riga is the capital and largest city of Latvia. With 702,891 inhabitants Riga is the largest city of the Baltic states, one of the largest cities in Northern Europe and home to more than one third of Latvia's population. The city is an important seaport and a major industrial, commercial,...
where her father worked as an engineer at the Russisch-Baltischen Waggonfabrik (later also known as Russo-Balt
Russo-Balt
Russo-Balt was one of the first Russian companies that produced cars between 1909 and 1923.- Russo-Baltic Wagon Corp. :...
). The family later moved to Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg
Saint Petersburg is a city and a federal subject of Russia located on the Neva River at the head of the Gulf of Finland on the Baltic Sea...
where her father worked at a machine tool factory. Interested in both arts and politics, she met several Bolsheviks and was also introduced to Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Eisenstein
Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein , né Eizenshtein, was a pioneering Soviet Russian film director and film theorist, often considered to be the "Father of Montage"...
(who incidentally also came to Saint Petersburg from Riga). She was actively involved in the Bolshevik revolution, and worked later as a secretary for the Proletkult
Proletkult
Proletkult was movement which arose in the Russian revolution and was active from 1917 to 1925 which aspired to provide the foundations for what was intended to be a truly proletarian art devoid of bourgeois influence.The name is a portmanteau of "proletarskaya kultura" , which are better-known as...
organization. In 1925 in the Eisenstein film The Battleship Potemkin, she played the role that made her famous in the Soviet Union. In 1931 she became the first Soviet ambassador in Italy. In 1937 she was recalled to Moscow where she was arrested and tried during the Great Purge
Great Purge
The Great Purge was a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated by Joseph Stalin from 1936 to 1938...
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