Nina Afanasievna Sazonova (Russian: Нина Афанасьевна Сазонова; 1917 — 2004) was a leading actress of the Soviet Army Theatre in Moscow.

Nina Sazonova
Born	Nina Afanasievna Sazonova (1917-01-07)7 January 1917 Konstantinovo, Aleksandrovsky District, Vladimir Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	1 March 2004(2004-03-01) (aged 87) Moscow, Russia
Occupation	actress
Years active	1934 — 2002

The daughter of a peasant, she joined Aleksey Popov's theatre school at the age of 17.[1] Popov went on to direct her in a number of productions at the Soviet Army Theatre. In the 1960s, she appeared in supporting roles in a slew of Soviet films and gained wider renown for her portrayal of a World War II survivor in the 1965 melodrama Womenfolk. Sazonova was named a People's Artist of the USSR in 1977 and was awarded the Order of Lenin in 1987.[2]

Her later years were plagued by a series of horrible incidents, such as being severely beaten by her drunken son who proceeded to jump 11 stories out of an apartment window to his death.[3]

Selected filmography

• A Simple Story (1960)
• Chronicle of Flaming Years (1961)
• There Is Such a Lad (1964)
• Woman's World (1967)
• Zigzag of Success (1968)
• Day by Day (1971–72)

References

External links

• Nina Sazonova at IMDb

На других языках

[ru] Сазонова, Нина Афанасьевна