Alexandra Snezhko-Blotskaya
Alexandra Gavrilovna Snezhko-Blotskaya was a Soviet animated film director. She was a longtime collaborator with Ivan Ivanov-Vano.Biography
Snezhko-Blotskaya was born in Volchansk near Kharkov, before her family moved to Shatura, near Moscow. There she graduated from art studios of Ivan Rerberg and Ilya Mashkov.
Snezhko-Blotskaya started her film career as designer for Soyuzkinokhronika in 1932. Since 1936 she became a constant collaborator and aide to Ivan Ivanov-Vano, a patriarch of Russian animation. She participated as a co-director in many of his films including famous The Humpbacked Horse and The Snow Maiden. Her first solo feature-length film was The Enchanted Boy, based on The Wonderful Adventures of Nils by Selma Lagerlöf.
Most of Snezhko-Blotskaya's films were fantasy based on folk tales and books by authors like Alexander Pushkin and Rudyard Kipling. In the 1970s she directed a series of five animated shorts based on Greek mythology.
She died in 1980 at the age of 71 at her home in Zheleznodorozhny, Moscow Oblast.Filmography
