Nato Vachnadze

Natalia Nato Vachnadze , born Natalia Andronikashvili , was a Georgian film actress. She started her career in the silent film era, usually playing the screen character of an Ingnue, an innocent and passionate young woman. She continued to work as an actress during the sound era until her death in a plane crash in 1953. One of the first film stars of the Soviet Union she received numerous honors, including the title of Peoples Artist of the Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic and the Stalin prize.

Nato Vachnadze was born in Warsaw, then in the Russian Empire as the daughter of a Georgian father from the Andronikashvili family and a Polish mother. Her father, an officer in the Russian army, was killed in a skirmish with a band of Chechen outlaws in 1912. She adopted her last name from her first marriage to Merab Vachnadze, with whom she had a son, Tengiz Vachnadze , the future architect. Her second marriage was with the film director Nikoloz Shengelaia, with whom she had two sons, the film directors Giorgi Shengelaya and Eldar Shengelaya. Her third marriage was with the Soviet navy captain Anatoli Kacharava . Nato Vachnadzes younger sister, Kira , also became an actress and married the writer Boris Pilnyak.

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