Yelizaveta Kuzyurina

Elizaveta Kuzyurina was a Russian character actress known for her appearances as a typical Russian peasant woman in Kotovsky (1943) and Native Fields (1945). She was born Elizaveta Vladimirovna Kuzyurina on February 22, 1915, in Moscow, Russian Empire. Her father, Vladimir Kuzyurin, was a successful dentist in Moscow. Her mother was a homemaker. During the turbulent times after the Russian communist revolution, her parents split and divorced. Young Elizaveta Kuzyurina was brought up by single mother. She had to start earning her own living early in her youth, working a string of lowly jobs, such as sanitary and nursing at a Moscow hospital. From 1936 to 1939 she studied acting at the Mosfilm Acting Studio, graduating in 1939 as film actress. While a student at Mosfilm, she made her film debut in as Pozharsky's wife in Minin i Pozharskiy (1939). From 1944 to 1957 Kuzyurina was a staff actress at Mosfilm Studios. From 1957 to 2000 she was a staff actress at Gorky Studios in Moscow. Elizaveta Kuzyurina was married three times. Her first husband, Isaak Maron, was killed while fighting in the front-lines of WWII. Her second husband was actor Yuri Domogarov, but the marriage did not work and ended in divorce. Her third husband was writer Aleksandr Andreyev and the couple had one son, Igor Andreev. Elizaveta Kuzyurina retired in 2000 and lived with her grandchildren at her country-house in a quiet suburb of Moscow. She died on January 12, 2009, and was laid to rest in Kotlyakovskoe cemetery in suburban Moscow.