Tamara Petkevich died

On October 18, in St. Petersburg, at the age of 97, the actress, theater expert and writer Tamara Petkevich died.

This was announced by the deputy of the Legislative Assembly of St. Petersburg Boris Vishnevsky.

Tamara Vladislavovna Petkevich was born in 1920 in Petrograd, her father was repressed in 1937.

In 1938 she entered the 1st State Institute of Foreign Languages, in 1940 she married and left for her husband in exile in the city of Frunze (now Bishkek), worked there as a theater artist, in 1943 she was arrested and sentenced to the 58th article to the 7th years of camps and 3 years of defeat in rights.

The deadline was serving in Kyrgyzstan and the Komi Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic. In the camps she participated in the theater-estral team consisting of prisoners, played in performances staged by the director Alexander Gavronsky. She was released in 1950, worked as an actress in theaters of Shadrinsk, Cheboksar and Chisinau. In 1957 it was rehabilitated.

In 1959, she returned to Leningrad, in 1967 she graduated from the Theater Institute of the Leningrad Institute of Theater, Music and Cinematography, and worked as the head of the repertoire department in the Leningrad House of Ascension.

In 1993, she published a book of memoir prose about life in the Stalinist camps “Life - Nepoparny Boot”. The book withstood a number of reprints, Marina Razbuzhkina shot a documentary on it, in St. Petersburg a performance was staged by the book. The second book of Tamara Petkevich, “against the backdrop of stars and fear” (2008), talks about her life after liberation from the camps.

Laureate of many literary awards, gentleman of the Order of Merits to the Republic of Poland.