Vera Petrovna Maretskaya (Russian: Ð'ера Петровна
ÐœÐ°Ñ€ÐµÑ†ÐºÐ°Ñ ) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress.Vera
Petrovna Maretskaya was born in Barvikha, a suburb of Moscow. She
helped her father, named Petr Maretsky, who was a candy bar vendor at
Moscow Circus. Maretskaya was auditioned by Yevgeny Vakhtangov and
studied at Vakhtangov Theatre School, from which she graduated as an
actress in 1924. That same year she became permanent member of
Theatre-Studio led by Yuri Zavadsky. She soon married him, and they
had one son. They remained lifelong friends and stage partners, even
after the end of their brief marriage.In 1925, Maretskaya made her
film debut in Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka. She played roles in fifteen
silent films. In 1937 Maretskaya suffered from political execution of
her two brothers, journalists Dmitri and Gregori, who were the
followers of opposition politician Nikolai Bukharin.Maretskaya
appealed to the Soviet government, but her appeal was ignored. Her
brothers were executed by gunshots during the purges of the "Great
Terror" under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. She lost her second
husband, a young actor, named Georgi Troitsky, who was killed in
action in 1941, during the Second World War. She took care of her own
two children, and also adopted the children of her executed brothers.
She was supported by Yuri Zavadsky.
ÐœÐ°Ñ€ÐµÑ†ÐºÐ°Ñ ) was a Soviet and Russian stage and film actress.Vera
Petrovna Maretskaya was born in Barvikha, a suburb of Moscow. She
helped her father, named Petr Maretsky, who was a candy bar vendor at
Moscow Circus. Maretskaya was auditioned by Yevgeny Vakhtangov and
studied at Vakhtangov Theatre School, from which she graduated as an
actress in 1924. That same year she became permanent member of
Theatre-Studio led by Yuri Zavadsky. She soon married him, and they
had one son. They remained lifelong friends and stage partners, even
after the end of their brief marriage.In 1925, Maretskaya made her
film debut in Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka. She played roles in fifteen
silent films. In 1937 Maretskaya suffered from political execution of
her two brothers, journalists Dmitri and Gregori, who were the
followers of opposition politician Nikolai Bukharin.Maretskaya
appealed to the Soviet government, but her appeal was ignored. Her
brothers were executed by gunshots during the purges of the "Great
Terror" under the dictatorship of Joseph Stalin. She lost her second
husband, a young actor, named Georgi Troitsky, who was killed in
action in 1941, during the Second World War. She took care of her own
two children, and also adopted the children of her executed brothers.
She was supported by Yuri Zavadsky.
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