Lyubov orlova biography of mahatma gandhi

Born in Zvenigorod just outside Moscow , to a noble family of moderate means, Lyubov Orlova was raised in Yaroslavl. Her father, Pyotr Fyodorovich Orlov, was a military engineer who built railroad bridges, and was a descendant of both the Poltava branch of the Ryurik clan and the famous Orlovs. Some historians even believe that the actress was a distant relative of Grigory Orlov, favorite of Catherine the Great.

Ten of her ancestors were famous for their exploits in the Christian realm, and were canonized and numbered among the saints of the Russian Orthodox Church. Pyotr Orlov was a decent singer, and Yevgenia accompanied him on the piano. In fact, Lyuba and her sister Nonna received a very good education and upbringing at home: they studied languages, singing, music on various instruments , and dance.

They were certainly not rich; their mother had to work. Yet theirs was the rather typical, peaceful, early twentieth-century life of the nobility. When Lyuba was seven, the great singer Fyodor Shalyapin, a family friend, predicted that she would be a great actress. What she would have become, had there not been a Bolshevik Revolution, is of course unknown.

Her parents dreamed she would become a professional pianist. Yet quite possibly she might have married a man of noble origins and ended up a common housewife: going to balls, receiving guests, raising children, reading books and playing music to better her soul. The USSR was to offer her something else entirely, but it also meant she had to hide her noble roots and live under a constant threat of arrest.

Journey of an American dancer, Marion Dixon (also played by Lyubov'.

In the hungry decade of the s, the family kept a cow. Lyuba and her sister Nonna took care of it, milking it and hauling milk cans about Moscow to sell. At 15, Lyuba hurt her hands from constantly hauling heavy cans about.