
Faina Ranevskaya
1896 – 1984 · aged 88
Soviet actress (1896-1984)
- Born
- 1896 · Taganrog
- Died
- 19 Jul 1984 · Moscow
Life timeline
Their life from birth to death. On the timeline, world events of the time are shown faintly.
- 1896BornBorn in Taganrog
- 1937AwardHonored Artist of the RSFSR
- 1947AwardOrder of the Badge of Honour
- 1947AwardPeople's Artist of the RSFSR
- 1949AwardStalin Prize
- 1950AwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour
- 1951AwardStalin Prize
- 1961AwardPeople's Artist of the USSR
- 1967AwardOrder of the Red Banner of Labour
- 1976AwardOrder of Lenin
- 19 Jul 1984DiedDied in Moscow
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Meanwhile in the world
Major world events during their lifetime (1896 – 1984).
- 18961896 Summer Olympics
- 1898Spanish–American War
- 1904 – 1905Russo-Japanese War
- 1914 – 1918World War I
- 1915 – 1923Armenian genocide
- 1917Balfour Declaration
- 1917February Revolution
- 1917October Revolution
- 1917 – 1922Russian Civil War
- 1919 – 1920Paris Peace Conference
- 1920Treaty of Versailles
- 1933 – 1945The Holocaust
- 19341934 FIFA World Cup
- 19361936 Summer Olympics
- 1937 – 1945Second Sino-Japanese War
- 19381938 FIFA World Cup
- 1938Munich Agreement
- 1939 – 1940Winter War
- 1939 – 1945World War II
- 1940 – 1945Auschwitz concentration camp
- 1941Attack on Pearl Harbor
- 1941 – 1945Eastern Front
- 1941Operation Barbarossa
- 1942 – 1943Battle of Stalingrad
- 1945Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
- 1945 – 1946Nuremberg trials
- 19501950 FIFA World Cup
- 1950 – 1953Korean War
- 1953 – 1959Cuban Revolution
- 19541954 FIFA World Cup
- 1955 – 1975Vietnam War
- 1956Hungarian Revolution of 1956
- 1956Suez Crisis
- 19581958 FIFA World Cup
- 1959Antarctic Treaty System
- 19621962 FIFA World Cup
- 1962Cuban Missile Crisis
- 19661966 FIFA World Cup
- 1966 – 1976Cultural Revolution
- 1968Prague Spring
Biography
Faina Georgiyevna Ranevskaya (Russian: Фаина Георгиевна Раневская, born Faina Girschevna Feldman, 27 August [O.S. 15 August] 1896 — 19 July 1984) was a Soviet actress. She is recognized as one of the greatest Soviet actresses in both tragedy and comedy. She was also famous for her aphorisms.
She acted in plays by Anton Chekhov, Alexander Ostrovsky, Maxim Gorky, Ivan Krylov, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Leo Tolstoy, and others.
Text from the Wikipedia article Faina Ranevskaya, CC BY-SA 4.0
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