Actress Daria Peshkova, granddaughter of Maxim Gorky, has died – Kommersant

Actress Daria Peshkova, granddaughter of writer Maxim Gorky, died at the age of 96, reported press service Vakhtangov Theater

Daria Peshkova was born in 1927 in Italy – in the city of Naples. In 1930, she and her family returned to Russia. In 1945, Mrs. Peshkova entered the Shchukin Theater School. In 1949, she was accepted into the troupe of the Vakhtangov Theater, where she served for almost 75 years.

During her theatrical career, Ms. Peshkova played about 50 roles, including Katya (“The Larks Are Singing”), the German Woman (“The Idiot”), Baba (“Virineya”), the Midwife (“Anna Karenina”), and Gypsy Glasha (“The Living Corpse”) “), Wanderer (“Pier”), Palageya (“People as people”).

Erdni Kagaltynov