Vera Kholodnaya

Her life was dramatized in Nikita Mikhalkov's A Slave of Love (1976). A documentary on her life was filmed in 1992. A year later, her image was depicted on a postage stamp and in 2003 a life-size bronze statue of her was erected in Odessa, Ukraine; created by artist Alexander P. Tokarev.

Official Russian records state that she died of the Spanish flu during the pandemic of 1919. While that seems quite likely, there is much speculation around her death. It was claimed that she was poisoned by the French ambassador with whom she reportedly had an affair and who believed that she was a spy for the Bolsheviks.

She was an actress, known for Her Sister's Rival (1916), Zhivoy trup (1918) and U kamina (1917). She was married to Vladimir Kholodny.

Had two daughters with her husband Vladimir Kholodny - Eugenia Kholodnaya (b.1912) and Nonna Kholodnaya (adopted her in 1913).

In 1910 she married Vladimir Kholodny, said to be one of the first Russian car racers and the editor of a daily sport newspaper. She would often accompany him in races which resulted in road accidents. She also adopted his surname, which translates to "the cold one". Later, many took it for a well-chosen pseudonym. Their daughter Evgeniya was born in 1912, and they adopted another child a year later.

Vera Kholodnaya was born on August 5, 1893 in Poltava, Russian Empire as Vera Vasilyevna Levchenko.