Maria Ivanovna Babanova (11 November 1900 – 20 March 1983) was a Soviet and Russian actress and pedagogue. She has been described as Vsevolod Meyerhold's greatest actress and was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1954.
Maria is a feminine given name. It is given in many languages influenced by Christianity. It was the feminine form of the unrelated Roman name Marius (see Maria gens), and, after Christianity had spread across the Roman Empire, it became the...
Murder on the Orient Express is a mystery novel with a closed circle of suspects, written by English writer Agatha Christie and featuring the Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. It was first published in the United Kingdom by the Collins Crime Club on...
The Snow Queen (Russian: Снежная королева, romanized: Snezhnaya Koroleva) is a 1957 Soviet animated musical fantasy film directed by Lev Atamanov. It is the ninth full-length animated production by Soyuzmultfilm and is based on the 1844 fable "The...
The Fairy with Turquoise Hair (Italian: la Fata dai Capelli Turchini), often simply referred to as the Blue Fairy (La Fata Turchina), is a fictional character in the 1883 Italian book The Adventures of Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi, repeatedly...
November 11 is the 315th day of the year (316th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar; 50 days remain until the end of the year.
Alone (Russian: Одна, romanized: Odna, meaning "Alone") is a Soviet film released in 1931. It was written and directed by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg. It was originally planned as a silent film, but it was eventually released with a...
Below is a list of fantasy films released in the 1950s.
The Vsevolod Meyerhold State Theatre (GOSTIM, GosTiM, TiM; Russian: Государственный театр имени Вс. Мейерхольда (ГОСТИМ, ГосТиМ, ТиМ)) was a drama theatre in Moscow, Soviet Union that operated under various names from 1920 to 1938. Throughout its...
The following is a list of notable deaths in March 1983. Entries for each day are listed alphabetically by surname. A typical entry lists information in the following sequence: Name, age, country of citizenship at birth, subsequent country of...