Vera Karalli

🎂 Born: 1889-07-27📍 Moscow, Russian Empire [now Russia]

Biography

Vera Karalli was a Russian ballerina turned star silent film actress. A mistress of Grand Duke Dmitri Pavlovich of Russia, she reportedly was a co-conspirator in the plot to murder Grigori Rasputin in December 1916. She died in Austria in 1972.

Known For

The Dying Swan

Gizella Raccio

Chrysanthemums

Vera Alekseevna Nevolina, the dancer

The Happiness of Eternal Night

Lily Pleskova, the blind young woman

The Draconian Contract

Restaurant owner's daughter

Cinema in Russia

Film footage

Shadows of Sin

Irina Kareyeva

After Death

Zoia Kadmina

A Woman's Revenge

The King of Paris

Cameo

The Alarm

Magda, Igor's sister