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May 21, 1872: The birth date of Nadezhda Teffi, known simply as Teffi.
She was a Russian humorist writer.
Teffi is a pseudonym.
Her real name was Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Lokhvitskaya.
Together with Arkady Timofeevich Averchenko she was one of the most prominent authors of the "Satiricon" magazine.
She had to leave Russia after the October Revolution, and died after the decades of immigration in Paris, France.
She is buried at Sainte-Genevive-des-Bois Russian Cemetery in France.
Natalya Andreychenko is a popular Soviet actress of 1970s and 1980s. She is famous as the Russian Mary Poppins.
Natalya made a decision to become an actress in early high school.
After an unsuccessful attempt to get into the Schepkin Art School, she was admitted to the Gerasimov Institute of Cinematography
where she studied in the Sergei Bondarchuk and Irina Skobtseva school.
In 1976 she appeared in her first movies "Ot zari do Zari" ("From Dawn to Dawn") and "Kolybelnaya dlya Muzchin" ("The Lullaby for men").
Her first successful film role was in the 1979 TV series "Siberiade", which received the special jury prize at the
Cannes Film Festival. However, Natalya became more popular in the Soviet Union after her roles in "Mary Poppins, Do svidanya"
and "Voenno-polevoy roman", both feature films released in 1983.
She is married to the Austrian actor, writer, producer and director Maximilian Schell, whom she met on the set of Peter the Great. They have one daughter together, Anastasia Schell.
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