1. Ekaterina Fyodorovna Savinova was a Soviet theatre and film actress and singer most famous for the leading role in the comedy movie Come Tomorrow, Please.
14 Facts About Ekaterina Savinova
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Ekaterina Savinova was named Meritorious Artist of the RSFSR in 1965.
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Ekaterina Savinova was born in the Yeltsovka village into a peasant family, the youngest of four children.
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Ekaterina Savinova finished a secondary school and in August 1944 left for Moscow to enter acting courses.
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Ekaterina Savinova was too late for exams, so she studied in a farming university and in half a year entered an additional VGIK course launched by Vasili Vanin.
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Ekaterina Savinova was dismissed "for the lack of acting skills", but this didn't stop her, and during the next summer she became a VGIK student under Boris Bibikov and his wife Olga Pyzhova.
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Ekaterina Savinova studied along with her future husband Yevgeny Tashkov.
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Ekaterina Savinova played her first big role in 1949 in the musical comedy Cossacks of the Kuban where she performed the singing parts.
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Ekaterina Savinova slapped Pyryev in the face, and after that he used his influence to ruin her career.
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Ekaterina Savinova was named the best actress at the 1964 All-Union Film Festival.
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The spouses then toured around the country with concerts where Tashkov talked about filmmaking and Ekaterina Savinova performed with songs.
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Ekaterina Savinova had to take a lot of medicine and spent months in mental clinics.
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On 25 April 1970 Ekaterina Savinova left for Moscow, arrived to a local train station and threw herself under the passing train.
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In 2011 during the 85th anniversary of Savinova's birth a Museum of Ekaterina Savinova was opened in the Yeltsovka village.