Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina


Maria Mikhailovna Blumenthal-Tamarina, was an honored Soviet movie and theatre actress. She was given the title of People's Artist of the USSR and was one of the first actresses to receive this honor. She was also recognized as Honored Artist of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic in 1925 and People's Artist of RSFSR in 1928. She was also named a recipient of the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour.

Biography

Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina's father, Mikhail, was born a serf. Maria graduated in 1875 from the Mariinsky de Saint-Petersburg gymnasium. In 1880, she married a drama teacher and actor named Alexander Eduardovich Blumenthal-Tamarin. Her stage debut was in 1885, when she became part of an amateur theater group. By 1887, she had appeared with a professional troupe in the Alexandre Dumas play Kean at Petrovsky Park in Moscow.
By 1889, she began working in the Mikhail Valentovich Lentovsky Theater Group. This troupe traveled throughout the Russian Empire between 1890 and 1901, reaching locations such as Tbilisi, Vladikavkaz, Rostov-on-Don, and Kharkov. Upon returning to Moscow, Blumenthal-Tamarina worked at the Korsh Theatre, the Comedy Theater, the Soukhodolski Theater, and the Maly Theatre. In 1911, she worked on the Boris Chaikovsky silent movie "The Living Corpse".
Throughout her career, Blumenthal-Tamarina appeared in over 20 films. In 1936, she performed the main role in the movie Seekers of Happiness, which tells the story of a Jewish family that moves to the Jewish colony of Birobidzhan
Maria Blumenthal-Tamarina was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of the Red Banner of Labour in.
She died on October 16, 1938, in Moscow. She was buried in Novodevichy Cemetery.

Filmography