Tatiana Ivanovna Peltzer… The main grandmother of the Soviet Union.
Fame came to her late, at the threshold of fifty. But isn’t it better late than never? Besides acting talent, Tatiana Peltzer had tremendous life wisdom. She managed to do the incredible—not to yield to ruthless time, but to turn her age to her advantage. That’s something not many manage.
The fate of the great actress is very interesting. Starting her acting career as a child, even before the Revolution, Tatiana Peltzer twice tried to break with the stage—but both times she returned, because the theater was her life. Being a truly theatrical actress, she became famous not on the stage, but on the screen. Few actors can boast such a number of roles, and not every actor is remembered decades after leaving.
Did you know that Tatiana Peltzer could have become a Soviet intelligence officer? And perhaps instead of her starring in films, films would have been made about her.
In Tatiana Peltzer’s life, especially in the first half, there were many blank spots. Andrei Shlyakhov collected material for more than three years for a book about his beloved actress in order to write such a detailed biography—one from which the living Tatiana Ivanovna looks back at us.