Elina Bystritskaya
Birthday
1928/04/04
Day of death
2019/04/26 (91 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Also know as
Elina Bystritskaya, Элина Быстрицкая
Biography
Elina Bystritskaya is a Soviet and Russian actress best known for her role of Aksiniya in Sergei Gerasimov's epic screening of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1958). Jewish by ethnicity and a native of Kiev, Bystritskaya was chosen to play Aksiniya by Sholokhov himself over several distinguished candidates, notably Nonna Mordyukova. Before that, she co-starred with Sergey Bondarchuk in the Unfinished Story, an archetypal Socialist Realist film. In the 1960's, Bystritskaya turn...Read more
Acting
(1960) Russkiy Suvenir
as Pandora Montesi
(1957) Quiet Flows the Don
as Aksiniya
(1963) All Remains to People
as Ksenia Rumyantseva
(1954) «Богатырь» идёт в Марто
as radistka Evgeníya Sergeevna
(1950) In Peaceful Time
as Lena
(1955) Unfinished Story
as Yelizaveta Muromtseva
(2004) The Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Tale of Saint Olga
as Saint Olga
(1967) Summer Residents
as Yulia Filippovna
(1991) Seven Days After the Murder
as Kira Aleksandrovna
(1993) Brave guys
as ---
(1958) The Volunteers
as Lyolya
(2004) Saga of the Ancient Bulgars: The Ladder of Vladimir the Red Sun
as Duchess Olga
(1964) Негасимое пламя
as Glasha
(1967) Nikolay Bauman
as Andreyeva
(1985) Guilty Without Guilt
as ---
(2002) Babi Yar
as ---
(1993) To Remember
as Narrator