Lidiya Vladimirovna (Tsirgvava) Vertinsky (1923 - 2013)

Born 14 Apr 1923 in Harbin, Heilongjiang, China

Wife of Alexander Nikolayevich Vertinsky — married 1939 in China

Died 31 Dec 2013 at age 90 in Moscow, Russia

Biography

Lidiya (Tsirgvava) Vertinsky is Notable.

Lidiya was born on April 14, 1923 in Kharbin, China to Vladimir Tsirgvava and Lydia Fomina.^[1]

Her family were educated aristocrats belonging to Georgian landed Gentry, who emigrated with the White Russians after the Communist Revolution of 1917.^[2]

In 1942, in China, A. N. Vertinsky married Lydia Vladimirovna Tsirgvava, the 20-year-old daughter of a CER (Chinese Eastern Railway) employee.^[3]

She passed away in 2013.

From DBpedia:^[4]

Lidiya Vladimirovna Vertinskaya (Russian: Лидия Владимировна Вертинская), born Tsirgvava (Georgian: წირღვავა; Russian: Циргва́ва) (14 April 1923 – 31 December 2013) was a Russian and Georgian actress and artist. Vertinskaya was born of the emigre family of mixed Georgian-Russian origin in Harbin. Her paternal grandparents moved to China from Georgia along with their children while retaining Russian citizenship. Her father Vladimir Konstantinovich Tsirgvava was a Soviet official who served at the Chinese Eastern Railway. He died when Vertinskaya was nine years old. Her mother Lydia Pavlovna Tsirgvava (née Fomina), originally from a Siberian family of Old Believers, was a housewife. In 1940 she met the Russian singer Aleksandr Vertinsky in Shanghai. Although he was 34 years older than her, they got married in two years. In 1943 they emigrated to the Soviet Union. She gave birth to (born 1943) and Anastasiya Vertinskaya (born 1944), both successful Russian actresses. In 1955 she graduated from V. I. Surikov Art Institute and started working as an artist. From 1952 on she also appeared in a number of movies, mostly fairy tales. In 1957 Aleksandr Vertinsky died, and she never married again. In 2004 she published a book of memoirs The Blue Bird of Love. Lidiya Vertinskaya died on 31 December 2013 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery in Moscow, near her husband

Sources

1. ↑ Далее: https://uznayvse.ru/znamenitosti/biografiya-lidiya-vertinskaya.html
2. ↑ IMDB https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0895035/bio?ref_=nm_ov_bio_sm
3. ↑ Chelyabinsk https://dict.susu.ru/en/personel/vertinsky-alexander-nikolaevich/
4. ↑ https://dbpedia.org/page/Lidiya_Vertinskaya

• Kommersant Daily Newspaper https://www.kommersant.ru/doc/2294373
• Wikipedia:Lidiya_Vertinskaya