Russian film director, screenwriter, and actress. Olga Ivanovna Preobrazhenskaya (24.07.1881, Moscow – 30.10.1971, ibid.) was a Russian and Soviet stage and film actress, film director, screenwriter and pedagogue; she was one of the first female film directors in the world, and the first female film director in Russia. Honoured Artist of the RSFSR (1935). Between 1901 and 1906, Preobrazhenskaya attended the Moscow Art Theatre Studio, after which she worked in provincial the…
