
Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, USSR [now Ukraine]
Elina Bystritskaya is a Soviet and Russian actress best known for her role of Aksiniya in Sergei Gerasimov's epic screening of Mikhail Sholokhov's novel And Quiet Flows the Don (1958). Jewish by ethnicity and a native of Kiev, Bystritskaya was chosen to play Aksiniya by Sholokhov himself over several distinguished candidates, notably Nonna Mordyukova. Before that, she co-starred with Sergey Bondarchuk in the Unfinished Story, an archetypal Socialist Realist film. In the 1960's, Bystritskaya turned to theatre work in the Maly Theatre and her appearances on screen grew sporadic. She was named People's Artist of the USSR in 1978.

as Self

as Narrator
1993

as Аксинья
1957

as Self
2019

as Glasha
1964

as Yelizaveta Muromtseva
1955

as Pandora Montesi
1960

1993

as Yulia Filippovna
1967

as Duchess Olga
2004

as radistka Evgeníya Sergeevna
1954

as Saint Olga
2004

as Kira Aleksandrovna
1992
2002

as Saint Olga
2004

as Duchess Olga
2004

2002

1993

1992

as Kira Aleksandrovna
1992

1985

1978

as Глафира
1974

1973

as Andreyeva
1967

as Yulia Filippovna
1967

as Glasha
1964

as Ksenia Rumyantseva
1963

as Pandora Montesi
1960

as Lyolya
1958

as Аксинья
1957

as Yelizaveta Muromtseva
1955

as radistka Evgeníya Sergeevna
1954

as Lena
1950
as Narrator
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