Vera Karalli
Vera Karalli | |
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Вера Каралли | |
Baden, Austria | |
Occupation(s) | Ballet dancer, choreographer and silent film actress |
Years active | 1914–1921 |
Vera Alexeyevna Karalli (
Early life and career
Born in Moscow, Karalli graduated from the Moscow Theatre School in 1906 under the direction of the prominent Russian instructor Alexander Gorsky. Karalli performed with Sergei Diaghilev's Ballets Russes company in 1909, as well as 1919 and 1920.[2] She became a soloist at the Bolshoi Theatre after two years and became a ballerina in 1915. Karalli was frequently paired with danseur Mikhail Mordkin.[citation needed]
In 1914 Karalli also embarked on a successful acting career, and became one of Russia's first celebrated film actresses. Her first role was in the 1914
Rasputin's death
Karalli was a mistress of
Exile
After fleeing to the West following the October Revolution, Karalli made her final film appearance in the 1921 Robert Wiene-directed German silent drama Die Rache einer Frau opposite Olga Engl and Franz Egenieff, credited as "Vera Caroly".[citation needed]
In 1920, Karalli participated in a large charity concert at the
In the 1920s, Vera Karalli taught dance in
Filmography
- Ты помнишь ли? (Ty pomnish' li?) (1914)
- Сорванец (Sorvanets) (1914)
- Chrysanthemums (1914)
- After Death (1915)
- War and Peace (1915)
- Наташа Ростова (Natasha Rostova) (1915)
- Тени греха (Teni grekha) (1915)
- Обожжённые крылья (Obozhzhenniye krylya) (1915)
- Любовь статского советника (Lyubov statskogo sovetnika) (1915)
- Счастье вечной ночи (Schastye vechnoy nochi) (1915)
- Драконовский контракт (Drakonovskiy kontrakt) (1915)
- Гриф старого борца (Grif starogo bortsa) (1916)
- The King of Paris (1917)
- The Dying Swan (1917)
- Набат (Nabat) (1917)
- Мечта и жизнь (Mechta i zhizn) (1918)
- La Nuit du 11 septembre (1919)
- A Woman's Revenge (1921)
See also
References
- ISBN 978-0-8108-6072-8.
- ^ a b Andros on Ballet Archived 15 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Radzinsky, Edvard, The Rasputin File, Doubleday, 2000, pp. 476–77
- ISBN 0810957019.
- ^ (4 December 2017) Russische Spuren in Wien – Teil 2: Von Vera Karalli bis Josef Stalin Retrieved 16 January 2019.