Inna Kondrateva

Inna Kondratyeva was a Russian film and stage actress. She was born Inna Mikhailovna Kondratyeva on 23 September, 1924, in Russia. From 1958 to 1963 Inna Kondratyeva was a member of Bolshoi Drama Theatre (BDT) in St. Petersburg (then Leningrad) under the leadership of the legendary director Georgi Tovstonogov. There her stage partners were such stars as Kirill Lavrov, Tatyana Doronina, Alisa Freyndlikh, Lyudmila Makarova, Svetlana Kryuchkova, Zinaida Sharko, Valentina Kovel, Innokentiy Smoktunovskiy, Yefim Kopelyan, Oleg Basilashvili, Mariya Prizvan-Sokolova, Pavel Luspekayev, Sergey Yurskiy, Evgeniy Lebedev, Ivan Palmu, Vsevolod Kuznetsov, Nikolay Trofimov, Georgiy Shtil,, and many other remarkable Russian actors. Kondratyeva's most memorable stage works were in 'Gore ot Uma' by the playwright Aleksandr Griboyedov, 'Uncle Vanya', a play by Anton Chekhov, 'Kholstomer', based on story by Lev Tolstoy, 'Na Dne', a play by Maxim Gorky, and other classic plays, directed by Georgi Tovstonogov at the BDT in St. Petersburg. From 1963 to 1982 she was a member of the troupe at Moscow Ermolova Theatre. There her partners were such actors as Vladimir Andreev, Vladimir Konkin, Viktor Pavlov, Vladimir Mashchenko, Aleksandr Kalyagin, Vsevolod Yakut, Boris Bystrov, Edda Urusova, Georgi Vitsin, Ivan Solovyov, Leonid Gallis, Fedor korchagin, Lidia Shubina, Tatiana Shchukina, Ekaterina Vasilyeva, Lev Lyubetsky, German Entin, Aleksey Zharkov, Vladimir Petchenko, Stanislav Lyubshin, Yuriy Medvedev, Evgeniya Uralova and many other notable Russian actors. Inna Kondratyeva was designated Honored Actress of the Russian Federation (1957). While living in Leningrad, she was married to director Georgi Tovstonogov, but the couple divorced and she moved to Moscow in 1963, there she was married to a government official and the couple had a son. In 1982, Inna Kondratyeva quit acting due to a chronic illness; she died of a heart failure on 18 July, 1988, in Moscow, and was laid to rest in Vostryakovskoe cemetery in Moscow, Russia.