Valentina Vagrina
Acting
November 3, 1904
Died at age 83
November 19, 1987
Date of Death
Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]
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Biography
Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1957).
One of the last students of Evgeny Vakhtangov, she was an actress at the Vakhtangov Theatre (1921-37, 1946-78).
A bright, precise, and intelligent actress, she endured much: both a labor camp and exile (1937-46) as punishment for her repressed husband.
In the 1950s, during the "Khrushchev Thaw," she was rehabilitated, but her artistic career never fully recovered; her best creative years were lost forever.
She became the wife of the artist N. I. Osenev (1909—1983), whose works she donated to the Russian Cultural Foundation after his death.
