1. Anna Timiryova was the mother of painter Vladimir Sergeyevich Timiryov.
19 Facts About Anna Timiryova
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Anna Timiryova Vasilyevna Safonova was born in Kislovodsk into the family of a musician and later the manager of the Moscow Music Conservatory, Vasily Ilyich Safonov.
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In 1906, the Safonov family moved to St Petersburg, where Anna Timiryova studied and graduated from the school of Princess Anna Timiryova Obolensky, learned drawing and painting with Zeidenberg, and became fluent in French and German.
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Anna Timiryova's request was denied and she received an additional year of imprisonment instead.
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Anna Timiryova was released only after the end of the Second World War.
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Anna Timiryova had no close family members left: her 24 year-old son, the artist Vladimir Timirev, had been shot on 17 May 1938.
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Anna Timiryova was still not allowed to live in Moscow, and she moved to Scherbakov in Yaroslavskaya Oblast, where she was offered the position of a property manager at a local drama theatre.
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At the very same time as Anna Timiryova lived in Rybinsk, Admiral Kolchak's niece, Olga, was living there.
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Several times Anna Timiryova made attempts to meet with Olga, but Olga refused.
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Anna Timiryova was said to have been denounced by her coworkers, who allegedly accused her of spreading anti-Soviet propaganda.
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Anna Timiryova was in her 70s, but she continued working.
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Anna Timiryova was a woman of considerable talent; when she was young, she drew and painted in private studio, and while in exile, she worked as toy-painting instructor and graphic designer.
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Anna Timiryova made beautifully carved gilded frames from paste impregnated papers covered with painter's gold.
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Anna Timiryova was a neat, well-mannered old lady with short grey hair and bright lively eyes.
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Anna Timiryova was then granted a small room in a communal flat on Pluschikha Street, Moscow.
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Anna Timiryova appeared in a crowd scene of Gaidai's 'Diamond hand' playing the part of charwoman and in Sergei Bondarchuk's War and Peace, playing the part of noble old lady at Natasha Rostova's first ball.
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Anna Timiryova was depicted onscreen by Veronica Izotova in the 1993 miniseries The White Horse and by Elizaveta Boyarskaya in the 2008 film The Admiral.
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Anna Timiryova was a woman of such force, of such will, with such magnanimity.
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Anna Timiryova is interpreted by the Russian singer Viktoria Dayneko.