Sarayeva biography

Friend of the actress Lyubov Petrovna Orlova. August Mikhailovna for a long time was a researcher at the Museum of the History of Leningrad. She was engaged in the study and set of archives of famous Soviet cultural figures, was the initiator and leading musical and theatrical evenings that had a large public resonance in the city, wrote excellent books in which the history of the city and events of the cultural life of Leningrad, the fate of famous people with whom the author was familiar, were reflected.

The photographs performed by him were published in more than two hundred monographs and artistic albums dedicated to the architecture of Leningrad, the work of famous Soviet sculptors, painters, graphs. His skill of the photographer was highly valued in the artistic environment of Leningrad and Moscow. In the hospitable house of Vladimir Vladimirovich and August Mikhailovna, famous artists and artists-K.

Petrov-Vodkin, V. Shukhaev, G. Vereis, M. Manizer, V. Konashevich were; F. Ranevskaya, L. Orlova, G. Ulanova, G. Aleksandrov, N. Vladimir Vladimirovich was a famous St. Petersburg collector. After the death of her husband, Augustus Mikhailovna transferred a family collection as a gift to the State Museum of Theater and Musical Art. The author of the book "Noble Assembly.

People and works of art in the house of Vladimir Vladimirovich Strekalov -Obolensky ”, where she talks about a beautiful man - a radical Petersburger, a prince by birth, an intellectual on a lifestyle, an artist on the attitude and vocation of V. Strekalov -Obolensky - and his amazing house - a kind of noble“ assembly ”of outstanding cultural figures and works of Russian and world art.

The first copy of the album “Portrait of Love” The Portrait of Love about Strekalov-Obolensky was intended for the presentation of the Queen of Great Britain Elizabeth II as a sign of the Culture of the English people. In the book “Dunaevsky in Leningrad”, the author “leads” the reader in the city and tells where, how and under what circumstances the composer’s music was born to the performances of the Leningrad Music Hall, to the films.

The two -volume “Silhouettes of Time” is the last bow of the author to those “uniquely beautiful people” who helped people with their lives touch the true spiritual values ​​of mankind: talent, nobility, dignity and honor.

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