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  1. Olga Konstantinovna Chekhova (née Knipper; Russian: Ольга Константиновна Чехова; 14 April 1897 – 9 March 1980), known in Germany as Olga Tschechowa, was a Russian-German actress. Her film roles include the female lead in Alfred Hitchcock's Mary (1931).

  2. Olga Knipper-Chekhova (born 1869, Glazov, Russia—died March 22, 1959, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.) was a world-renowned Russian actress and the wife of playwright Anton Chekhov. Knipper was rejected by the drama school of the Maly Theatre in Moscow but was noticed by V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and asked to join the acting school of the Moscow ...

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  3. Aug 24, 2013 · Olga Chekhova — a student of Stanislavsky, wife of the great Mikhail Chekhov, state actress of the Third Reich, clandestine agent for the Kremlin — was a legendary woman who lived an...

  4. Mini Bio. Olga Chekhova (also Olga Tschechova in German), one of the most popular stars of the silent film era, remained a mysterious person throughout her life and was accused of being a Russian agent in Nazi Germany. She was born Olga Konstantinovna von Knipper on April 26, 1897, in Aleksandropol, Transcaucasia, Russian Empire (now Gyumri ...

    • April 26, 1897
    • March 9, 1980
  5. Sep 12, 2004 · One of these was Olga Che-khova, a Russian émigrée living in Berlin who was the niece of Anton Chekhov, and whose acting the Führer greatly admired. But her biggest fans were the Soviet...

  6. Antony Beevor’s The Mystery of Olga Chekhova tells the extraordinary tale of how one family survived the Russian revolution, the civil war, the rise of Hitler, the Stalinist terror, and the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union.

  7. Olga Knipper-Chekhova. Actress: Tomorrow Night. Olga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova (nee Knipper) was born on September 9, 1868, in Glasov, Russian Empire, into the family of a German origin. She received an excellent private education and was bilingual, being fluent in Russian and German.

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