Marianna Vertinskaya

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Biography

Marianna Vertinskaya is a Russian stage and screen actress who starred in several good Soviet films of the 1960s and 1970s.

Marianna was born in 1943 on a train heading toward a large Russian colony in Shanghai, China. She is the daughter of Alexander Vertinsky and Lidiya Tsirgvava.

She made her film debut in 1961 with the role of Katya Bortashevich in the film Leap Year. Dhe is perhaps best known for playing the role of Anya in the film Zastava Ilyich.

Marianna was married first to architect Ilya Bylinkin from 1967-1973. They had a daughter, Alexandra. Marianna left Ilya after announcing that she had been having an affair with the famed Russian cameraman, Gosha Rerberg. But Rerberg was an abusive alcoholic and Marianna was eventually forced to flee to safety with the help of her theater friends, particularly actor Boris Khmelnitsky. Marianna married Khmelnitsky in 1975. They had a daughter, Daria, before divorcing in 1981.

Marianna married third, businessman Zoran Kazimirovich of the "Yugoslav Swiss Firm," in 1983. This marriage also ended in divorce, in 1996, when Zoran chose to leave Russia, and she chose not to go.

Over the years, Marianna was also associated with film directors Andrei Konchalovsky and Andrei Tarkovsky , cameramen Alexander Knyazhinsky, artist Lev Zbarsky, and translator A. Eldarov.

She received the honorific, Honored Artist of the RSFSR, in 1991.

Sources

• Russian Wikipedia entry for Marianna Alexandrovna Vertinskaya.

• Wikipedia entry for Alexander Vertinsky

• Interview with Soviet Russian actress Marianna Vertinskaya at Soviet Art: USSR Culture