"A Love is a Name and a Feeling for me" (Grigori Alexandrov)

The word "Lyubov" means "Love" in Russian.

The crucial meeting had taken place in 1933 and this fact had the decisive importance for all her future life. She met Grigori Alexandrov.

Russian filmmaker Grigori Alexandrov (January 10, 1903 – December 16, 1983) started out as an acrobat, entertaining Red Army troops during the Civil War in Russia . Alexandrov then went to work as an actor and stage manager at Proletkult Theater in Moscow , where he befriended the troupe's director, Sergei Eisenstein. When Eisenstein decided to give the movies a try, Alexandrov went along as screenwriter and general assistant. The two men collaborated on such silent masterpieces as Strike (1925) and Oktiabr (1925). In 1931, Alexandrov accompanied Eisenstein to Mexico to work on the ill-fated, never-completed Que Viva Mexico : the resultant footage didn't see light of day until Alexandrov prepared an edited version-48 years later.

Alexandrov's first solo directorial effort was the non-narrative French short subject Romance Sentimentale (1930); two years later, he completed his first feature, Internationale.

"I had fell in love with Grigori Alexandrov as a cat" (Lyubov Orlova)

«Love is a great poetry, a great pleasure, an ideal of the beauty, an ideal of the sanctity!» (Alexander Herzen, Russian writer)

His subsequent Russian films were non-dogmatic musicals and comedies, the best of which included Jazz Comedy (Jolly Fellows) (1934), Circus (1936) and Volga Volga (1938). He succeeded Eisenstein as the artistic director of Mosfilm in 1944, subsequently winning multiple awards for his Mosfilm productions Spring (1947), Meeting on the Elbe (1949) and Glinka (1952).

Grigori Alexandrov was married to popular Soviet film star Lyubov Orlova. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

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1924-1926(7) – lawful matrimony with Olga Ivanova. Their son Douglas (Vasiliy) was born in 1925 (died in 1978).

1933-1937 – common-law marriage with Lyubov Orlova.

May 28, 1937 – January 26,1975 – lawful matrimony with Lyubov Orlova.

Filmography of Grigori Alexandrov:

1983	Lyubov Orlova	Director, co-directed by Yelena Mikhailova
1979	Que Viva Mexico	Restoration and montage, co-directed by Orlov, N.
1974	Starling and Lire / Skvoretz and Lira	Director, Screenwriter
1965	Lenin in Switzerland	Director, Screenwriter
1960	Russian Souvenir / Russkiy Suvenir	Director
1958	Man to Man / Chelovek Cheloveku	Director, co-directed by Aisenberg, G.
1952	The Composer Glinka / Kompozitor Glinka	Director, Screenwriter
1949	Meeting on the Elbe / Vstrecha Na Elbe	Director
1947	Springtime / Vesna	Director, Screenwriter
1943	One Family / Odna Semya	Director, co-directed by Takhmasib, R.
1940	Shining Path / Svetly Put	Director
1938	Volga-Volga	Director
1936	The Circus / Tsirk	Director, Screenwriter
1934	Jolly Fellows / Jazz Comedy / Moscow Laughs / Veselye Rebyata	Director
1933	The International (Short Film)	Director
1932	Que Viva Mexico	Editor, co-directed by Sergey Eisenstein
1930	Romance Sentimentale	Director
1929	General Line / Old and New / Generalnaya Liniya	Director, Screenwriter, co-directed by Sergey Eisenstein
1927	October	Director, Screenwriterб First Assistant Director
1927	A Girl from a Distant River / Devushka S Dalekoi Reki	Screenwriter
1924	Strike	Screenwriter, First Assistant Director

Brief Personal Records

1903 – Grigori Alexandrov was born in Ekaterinburg.
1919 – He had come to “win Moscow ”.
1925 – 1927 – He (together with Sergey Eisenstein) had produced movies “Battleship Potemkin” and “Oktiabr”.

1929 – 1932 – period of trainee in Hollywood .
1934 – 1975 – was married to Lyubov Orlova, who played lead parts almost in all of his films.

1983 – had produced his last documentary film «Lyubov Orlova.». December 16, 1983 – Died.

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Love comes suddenly...

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He called her "Charlie" and she called him "Spenser" in honour of the family's friend Charles Spenser Chaplin

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Beauty is a promise of happyness

They were the most beauty and famous couple of the USSR. They never left each other for a long time and they never disagreed.

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They call each other by first name and patronymic and they had been being as polite and tender with each other as possible.

Couple

Love Story

They had been being together for 42 years. When she had passed away, he said: "There were 42 years of happyness".

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Lubov Orlova: Virtual Museum

Crucial Meeting

"A Love is a Name and a Feeling for me" (Grigori Alexandrov)

The word "Lyubov" means "Love" in Russian.

"I had fell in love with Grigori Alexandrov as a cat" (Lyubov Orlova)

«Love is a great poetry, a great pleasure, an ideal of the beauty, an ideal of the sanctity!» (Alexander Herzen, Russian writer)

Filmography of Grigori Alexandrov:

Brief Personal Records

Love comes suddenly...

Love Story

Beauty is a promise of happyness

Love Story

Love Story