"German but was corrected for later performances. She is referenced in the Gavin Friday song 'Dolls' from his 1995 album Shag Tobacco. Lotte Lenya Lotte Lenya (18 October 1898 – 27 November 1981) was an Austrian singer, diseuse, and actress, long based in the United States. In the German-speaking and classical music world she is best remembered for her performances of the songs of her husband, Kurt Weill. In English-language cinema, she was nominated for an Academy Award for her role as a jaded aristocrat in ""The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"" (1961). She also played the murderous and sadistic"
"list of Mack's female conquests in the song. Her role as Vivien Leigh's earthy friend Contessa Magda Terribili-Gonzales in the screen version of Tennessee Williams' ""The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone"" (1961) brought Lenya an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actress. In 1963, she was cast as the SPECTRE agent Rosa Klebb in the James Bond movie ""From Russia with Love"" starring Sean Connery and Robert Shaw. In 1966, Lenya originated the role of Fräulein Schneider in the original Broadway cast of the musical ""Cabaret"". Kander and Ebb's score was considered by some to be inspired by Weill's music."
"Rosa Klebb Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond 1957 novel and 1963 film ""From Russia with Love"". She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version. Her name is a pun on the popular Soviet phrase for women's rights, ""khleb i rozy"" (Cyrillic: хлеб и розы), which in turn was a direct Russian translation of the internationally used labour union slogan ""bread and roses"". Colonel Klebb is a high-ranking member of the feared Russian counter-intelligence agency SMERSH, where she serves as the supervisor of Department II (operations and executions). It"
"reimagining of the video game ""GoldenEye 007"", the weapon that was named ""Klobb"" in the original game (originally named after designer Ken Lobb) has had its name changed to ""Klebb"". Klebb herself is also a playable character in the game's multiplayer component. Klebb was also included on the list of top ten Bond villains by ""The Times"" in 2008. Rosa Klebb Colonel Rosa Klebb is a fictional character and the main antagonist from the James Bond 1957 novel and 1963 film ""From Russia with Love"". She was played by Lotte Lenya in the film version. Her name is a pun"
"the Rolling Stones, who told her to take up modelling instead of cooking and invited her to come to North America with him. When Katya was 15 she became the model for a girls' doll, ""Bobby"", manufactured in London. Katya was given her nickname ""Sambuca"" by Bob Jack (real name Sergei Mikhailov), whom she married at the age of 16. The couple have a daughter Zvana, named after the hotel in Volkhov where Mikhailov ""became a man"". In 2011 Katya and her husband left for a massive tour, during which she performed an erotic show accompanied by her own house"
"when she sang Desdemona in ""Otello"" and Nedda in ""Pagliacci"" In 1989 she married the opera producer from Austria Robert Rostsik. In 1993 son Andrey was born. They met when Robert came to listen to a young generation of Russian singers. Kazarnovskaya then worked at the Mariinsky Theater in St. Petersburg. According to her, it was not a love at first sight, but they began to communicate with great interest. When the singer came to audition in Vienna, they began a novel that led to the wedding. Lyubov Kazarnovskaya Lyubov Yurievna Kazarnovskaya (, born 18 July 1956) is a Russian"
"she married Ilya Lyubimov a Russian actor. On 11 February 2012 she gave birth to a daughter, named Pavla. On 6 April 2014, she gave birth to a son named Peter. She played in the Theatre in ""No Part from His Love"" by Alexander Volodin and also played in ""She, Katya Kozlova"" directed by Viktor Ryzhakov. In the 2010 to 2011 she was participated in the TV show Led i Plamen ""Ice and Fire"" on the Channel One of Russian TV. In 2010 she starred in the video for the song ""You Know"" by Alexander Lominsky, and in 2012 she"
"tempestuous relationship with her mother, Edith Stevenson Wright. Lange was married to photographer Francisco ""Paco"" Grande from 1970 to 1981. Though they separated not long after moving to Europe during the mid-1970s, they did not divorce until the early 1980s, after which Lange paid him an undisclosed sum in alimony. From 1976 to 1982, she was partnered with renowned Russian ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom she had her first child, Aleksandra Lange ""Shura"" Baryshnikov (born 1981). During that time, she was also sporadically linked with Bob Fosse, with whom she remained friends until his death. In 1982, she met"
"Mendelssohn. She has also starred as Carmen in the Mariinsky's production of the ""Carmen Suite"", featuring the music of Georges Bizet as adapted and re-orchestrated by Rodion Shchedrin. In October 2012, Ms. Golub married actor and performance artist Andrey Kislitsin. He has appeared in two films, ""Drink Tea Outside"", and ""Yolki"" (or ""Six Degrees of Celebration""), a smash hit in its native country, Russia, but yet to be shown in the U.S. The couple tour with the Cirque du Soleil, of which Kislitsin is a member. In August 2013, the couple gave birth to their first child, a son. Irina"
"in love with a married Russian woman. It stars Marcello Mastroianni, Silvana Mangano, Oleg Tabakov, Yelena Safonova, Pina Cei and Vsevolod Larionov. The film was adapted by Aleksandr Adabashyan, Suso Cecchi d'Amico and Nikita Mikhalkov, ""inspired by"" stories by Anton Chekhov. It was directed by Mikhalkov. Mastroianni received Best Actor at the Cannes Film Festival and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actor. The story has also been adapted for stage; for example, an adaptation by Peter Campbell was featured at the 2002 Chekhov Now Festival in New York. A play titled ""Sunstroke"", directed by Oleg Mirochnikov, combines"
"As shooting was about to commence, Pigg discovered that she was pregnant so the role of Helen was offered to Madsen. Rose was then married to producer Tarquin Gotch with whom she has a daughter Lucia and a son Roman Gotch. She was interviewed with her ""Letter to Brezhnev"" co-star Peter Firth on ""BBC Breakfast"" in April 2017, during which Firth explained that they dated briefly after making the film, and that they have been in a relationship since 2010. They married in London on Christmas Eve 2017. Alexandra Pigg Alexandra Pigg (born 1962 in Knotty Ash, Liverpool) is a"
"In 1920 she met historian and science fiction writer H. G. Wells and they became lovers. Their relationship was renewed in 1933 in London, where she emigrated after parting with Gorky. The close relationship with Wells continued until his death; Wells asked her to marry him, but Budberg strongly rejected his proposal. She visited the Soviet Union twice, in 1936 for the funeral of Gorky (which made people call her an agent of the NKVD) and at the end of 1950, with a daughter of Alexander Guchkov. She was briefly married, on 13 November 1921 to Baron Nikolai (Rotger Emil"
"well known in Russian court circles for several centuries, since the time of Ivan the Terrible. The assassination of General Griaznoff in January 1906 was one of the most celebrated successes of a Russian revolutionary gang which included the young Joseph Stalin. In 1921 it became the subject of the first Soviet Georgian historical film, directed by Ivan Perestiani, ""The Murder of General Gryaznov"". Her first marriage ended in a 1990 divorce, and in 1991 she married New Zealander Sir Francis Renouf, a merchant banker and former POW in a German camp, who had worked alongside Hermann Abs of the"
"century, following her professor . Born in the family of the famous Soviet lawyer Professor (1882-1961) and his wife Lydia Mikhailovna. In 1937 she graduated from the Leningrad State University, finishing the courses of two sections - linguistic and literary. A disciple of Professors and Viktor M. Zhirmunsky. In 1936 she married the Orientalist scholar Igor M. Dyakonov. In 1943, in the World War II evacuation from besieged Leningrad to a small town of Kyshtym, she defended her Candidate of Sciences thesis «Китс и поэты Возрождения» (""Keats and Renaissance Poets""). Since 1944 she was an assistant professor, then a full"
"marry because Ossip was unable to obtain the necessary papers from Russia: another version indicates that Clara was reluctant to enter into a marriage which would have caused her to lose her German citizenship. Their two sons, and Kostja, were born in 1883 and 1885. It was presumably as a result of his mother's political activism that Kostja Zetkin met Rosa Luxemburg. He became the lover of his mother's friend in 1907, and this aspect of the relationship with Rosa Luxemburg lasted till his conscription in 1915, although they would remain lifelong friends. It was also at least partly on"
"a foreign court. The marriage was announced in May 1901, and was unexpected by many, as Oldenburg had shown no prior interest in women. The Dowager Empress Maria Feodorovna wrote to her son, Tsar Nicholas II, ""I am sure you won't BELIEVE what has happened. Olga is engaged to PETYA and BOTH are very happy. I had to consent, but it was all done so quickly and unexpectedly that I still cannot believe it."" Tsar Nicholas replied to his mother, ""...I cannot believe Olga is actually ENGAGED to Petya. They were probably both drunk yesterday. ... We both laughed so"
"From Russia with Love (film) From Russia with Love is a 1963 British spy film and the second in the ""James Bond"" film series produced by Eon Productions, as well as Sean Connery's second role as MI6 agent James Bond. It was directed by Terence Young, produced by Albert R. Broccoli and Harry Saltzman, and written by Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood, based on Ian Fleming's similarly named 1957 novel. In the film, Bond is sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova in Turkey, where SPECTRE plans to avenge Bond's killing of Dr. No. Following"
"the Russian singer Aleksandr Vertinsky in Shanghai. Although he was 36 years older than her, they got married in two years. In 1943 they emigrated to the Soviet Union. She gave birth to Marianna Vertinskaya (born 1943) and Anastasiya Vertinskaya (born 1944), both successful Russian actresses. In 1955 she graduated from V. I. Surikov Art Institute and started working as an artist. From 1952 on she also appeared in a number of movies, mostly fairy tales. In 1957 Aleksandr Vertinsky died, and she never married again. In 2004 she published a book of memoirs ""The Blue Bird of Love"". Lidiya"
"(1968), Mussorgsky's ""Boris Godunov"" (1970 and 1987), Puccini's ""Tosca"" (1976), Tchaikovsky's ""The Queen of Spades"" (with Regina Resnik, 1976), ""Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk"" (1978), Tchaikovsky's ""Iolanta"" (with Nicolai Gedda, 1984), and Prokofiev's ""War and Peace"" (1986). Galina Vishnevskaya Galina Pavlovna Vishnevskaya (née Ivanova, ; 25 October 192611 December 2012) was a Russian soprano opera singer and recitalist who was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1966. She was the wife of cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, and mother to their two daughters, Olga and Elena Rostropovich. Vishnevskaya was born in Leningrad. She made her professional stage debut in 1944 singing"
"protégé of Russian director and screenwriter Renata Litvinova who calls Sofya her ‘favorite actress’. A number of Russian media sources announced on July 22, 2017 that Konstantin Ernst married Sofya Zaika, but there is no official confirmation of this marriage. Konstantin Ernst has three daughters. The elder daughter Alexandra, born in 1994 from his relationship with Anna Silunas (now lives in NYC, USA). His two younger daughters with Sofya Zaika (born in 2016 and 2017), whose names are kept in secret. Some Russian media erroneously say Ernst the father of Larisa Sinelshchikova's children, Anastasia (born in 1983) and Igor (born"
"described an affair with her in 1947 and 1948. In 1941 she met the Russian-born millionaire, George Schlee, who was introduced to her by his wife, fashion designer Valentina. Nicholas Turner, Garbo's close friend for 33 years, said that, after she bought an apartment in the same building, ""Garbo moved in and took Schlee right away from Valentina."" Schlee would split his time between the two, becoming Garbo's close companion and advisor until his death in 1964. Recent biographers and others believe that Garbo was bisexual or lesbian, that she had intimate relationships with women as well as with men."
"her feelings for Whitworth, and in April 1801 in London he married the widowed Duchess of Dorset. His marriage discovered it, in her own words, eyes to the abyss into which it was ready to use. After Paul I of Russia's death in March 1801, at the request of the Empress Elizabeth Alexeievna, Countess Tolstoy returned to her husband in Russia. She was present at the coronation of Tsar Alexander I of Russia in Moscow, but soon again went abroad with the children and traveled extensively in Europe. She remained a close friend of the Empress. Her letters to the"
"""Die Schweigsame Frau"" under Karl Böhm at Dresden Semper Opera House. Strauss advised her to move to Berlin, and in 1936 she joined the Berlin State Opera, where she was a prima donna until 1946. That year, she sang ""Susanna"" in ""Le Nozze di Figaro"", Zerlina in ""Don Giovanni"", and Sophie in ""Der Rosenkavalier"" for Dresden Semper Opera Company's performances at Covent Garden Royal Opera House of London. From then on, she appeared at many great opera houses including Vienna State Opera and La Scala Opera House of Milan. She divorced Count Virubov in 1938, and married the Austrian actor"
"author and the director of the Théâtre Italien and twenty-one years Pauline's senior, was financially secure and would be able to provide Pauline with much more stability than de Musset. The marriage took place on 18 April 1840. He was 39 or 40, she 18. He was devoted to her and became the manager of her career. Her children followed in her musical footsteps. Her son Paul became a concert violinist, her daughter Louise Héritte-Viardot became a composer and writer, and two other daughters became concert singers. Her marriage did not stop the steady stream of infatuated men. The Russian"
"home due to his infidelity. Stiva's sister, Anna Karenina, a well-off and well-liked socialite living in St. Petersburg with her older husband, Count Alexei Karenin, and their son, Sergei ""Seryozha"" Alexeyich Karenin, travels to Moscow to persuade Dolly to forgive Stiva. Stiva meets his old friend Konstantin Levin, a wealthy land owner and aristocrat who is looked down upon by Moscow's elite for preferring country life to city life. Levin professes his love for Stiva's sister-in-law, Princess Ekaterina ""Kitty"" Alexandrovna, and Stiva encourages him to propose. However, Kitty declines as she hopes to marry Count Alexei Vronsky, a wealthy cavalry"
"Romin (Oleg Menshikov) has come to Moscow to study history and is staying with kindly aunt Alisa (Sofya Pilyavskaya), who lives in a ""communal apartment"" building there. His life soon becomes intertwined with those of the other residents. Among them are Margarita Pavlovna (Inna Ulyanova) and both her former husband Lev Khobotov (Anatoly Ravikovich), a publisher of foreign poetry, and her new beau, World War II veteran and engraver-turned-teacher Savva Ignatevich (Viktor Bortsov). The main plot revolves around the congenial Khobotov’s attempts to find happiness with newfound love Lyudochka (Yelena Koreneva), while constantly being thwarted by the controlling Margarita. Another"
"as she isn't male I haven't [been] able to think of any suitable steps to take."" In 1921, Keynes wrote that he had fallen ""very much in love"" with Lydia Lopokova, a well-known Russian ballerina and one of the stars of Sergei Diaghilev's ""Ballets Russes"". In the early years of his courtship, he maintained an affair with a younger man, Sebastian Sprott, in tandem with Lopokova, but eventually chose Lopokova exclusively. They were married in 1925, with Keynes's former lover Duncan Grant as best man. ""What a marriage of beauty and brains, the fair Lopokova and John Maynard Keynes"" was"
"Her parents divorced in 1912, and her mother remarried. She returned to the school in Lausanne, but to protest the remarriage of her mother, she refused to spend her holidays with her family. Instead, she spent the summer with her wealthy Aunt Stefa in Saint Petersburg. There, in 1915, she met and fell in love with a prominent Polish lawyer, Tadeusz Łempicki (1888–1951). Her family offered him a large dowry, and they were married in 1916 in the chapel of the Knights of Malta in St. Petersburg. The Russian Revolution in November 1917 overturned their comfortable life. In December 1917,"
"""Ave Maria"" with Bing Crosby and the choir. In 1939, Stevens married Walter Surovy, an Austrian stage and screen actor she met during her European years, after he fled the Nazis to New York. One likely display of Surovy's finesse with publicity was the fact that Stevens' voice was insured by Lloyd's of London in 1945 for $1 million. Other roles included Fricka in Wagner's ""The Ring of the Nibelung"", Marfa in Mussorgsky's ""Khovanshchina"", Giulietta in ""The Tales of Hoffmann"", and Prince Orlovsky in ""Die Fledermaus"". Her RCA Victor recording of the complete opera, conducted by Fritz Reiner and co-starring"
"reportedly had affairs with various rich Englishwomen. The couple divorced in 1936. In 1939 she married another Russian, Alexander Kerensky, who had led the first phase of the Russian Revolution in 1917 and lived in exile in Pennsylvania, US. Following their wedding, the Kerenskys lived in Paris briefly before moving to New York. In February 1946, while visiting her parents in Brisbane, Australia, Nell suffered a stroke and died of chronic nephritis on 10 April. The story of her life was turned into a play ""Motherland"", in 2016 by playwright Katherine Lyall-Watson. Lydia Ellen Tritton Lydia ""Nellé"" Tritton (Russian: Лидия"
"the war, Shelest was also at the forefront of the developments in Russian dance. She performed in the new works by Zakharov, Bourmeister, Sergeyev, and Yakobson, having an incredible success in 1956 as Aegina in Yakobson's Spartacus due her innate sense of drama and character development. Her first Giselle in the same year broke new ground in offering a more realistic approach to the drama and was considered a revelation at the time. In the 1950s, she married choreographer Yuri Grigorovich and danced in many of his creations, both Katerina and Mistress of the Copper Mountain in The Stone Flower,"
"Paul Fejos. She appeared in two Danish films, ""Storm Varsel"" and a Fejos-directed 1934 film she starred in, ""Flight from the Millions"". She was still married to Fejos when she traveled to the United States, as well as during her affair with Kennedy. She obtained a divorce from Fejos in June 1942. She became engaged to Robert Boothby, a British member of Parliament in May 1945. He met Arvad in Los Angeles, California while he was with a British delegation to a conference in San Francisco, California. Boothby sent her a twenty-page letter pleading with her to marry him after"
"ensure her loyalty. Romanova eventually discovers this, including the fact that she had never, as she had believed, been a ballerina. She further discovers that the Red Room is still active as ""2R"". Natasha was arranged by the KGB to marry the renowned Soviet test pilot Alexei Shostakov. However, when the Soviet government decided to make Alexei into their new operative, the Red Guardian, he is told that he can have no further contact with his wife. Natasha is told that he had died and is trained as a secret agent separately. Romanova grew up to serve as a femme"