Lyubov Speranskaya, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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artist
Date of Birth: 23-Jun-1918
Place of Birth: Vitebsk, Belarus
Date of Death: 01-Jan-2010
Profession: painter
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About Lyubov Speranskaya
- Speranskaya Lyubov Lvovna (1918–2010; Russian: ?????????? ?????? ??????? nee Stein) is People's artist of the Republic of Tatarstan, member of Russian Artist's Union, the first woman-scenograph in Tatarstan, theatre artist, portraitist, graphic painter, ceramist, ethnographer, the participant of Great Patriotic War. Living in Leningrad (today Saint-Petersburg), in 1941 she finished Leningrad State University, then she was mobilized for children's evacuation from Besieged Leningrad.
- She worked as a tutor until 1944 in a remote village in Sarman district in the Republic of Tatarstan. There she opened national Tatar art.
- Singularity and charm of national art fascinated her for years.
- And first sketches had been appeared.
- She interested in origin of some elements of national art, character of national clothes and utensils. As a result of many-years work in museum fonds in Kazan, Volga area and other cities the richest material had been collected.
- In 1972, after 25 years of work Kostyumi Kazanskikh Tatar (National Clothes of the Kazan Tatars) album was published with great success.
- Professor N.
- Nadirov wrote: "This album is an illustrated history of national clothes".
- Similar opinion was told by A.X.
- Xalikov, A.G.
- Axmadullin, R.G.
- Moxammadova, etc.
- And still there is no a better work in this area. At the same time she began to work as an artist in TGTO&B, she became a follower of Pyotr Tikhonovich Speranski, one of the greatest masters of scena, the creator of Tatar national decorative art.
- She became his wife later.
- Then Lyubov Speranskaya finished Art College in 1953.
- The first playbill containing her name appeared in 1946.
- From 1953 till 1957 Speranskaya worked as chief artist in Kazan Dolls Theatre, since 1957 she worked as stage-artist director in Kazan theatres, also she was invited to other cities of Russian Federation (Ijevsk, Chelyabinsk, Cheboksary, Yoshkar-Ola, Siktivkar, Petrozavodsk, Moscow, etc.).
- There are more than 100 theatre productions in her art-baggage.
- Lyubov Speranskaya has become famous scenographic producer and master of scenic and national clothes.
- At the same time, in her scenic works, portraits we can see that Speranskaya is acute portraitist-psychologist. Her theatre and scenic costumes as a rule turn to character with its own psychology, features of nationality and spirit of time. "After work decision of Speranskaya it is too difficult to imagine another character…"- her colleague told. Lyubov Speranskaya is constant participant of different Theatre Art Exhibitions in Tatarstan, Russia, former Soviet Union and international exhibitions. She has a diploma for participation in Russian Exhibition Bolshaya Volga (The Great Volga).
- Now she is ready to exhibit new series of posters Volga Muslims, which are dedicated to Kazan's 1000 anniversary.
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