Liubov' Orlova - Khort Aleksandr Nikolaevich

People's artist of the USSR Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (1902 - 1975) happened to become the first Soviet movie star, a favorite of several generations of spectators. In excess endowed with beauty, talent, adoration of the public and attention of men, she, nevertheless, could not avoid neither everyday dramas, nor creative failures. The actress carefully protected her life from the intervention of strangers, so her biography still keeps a lot of secrets. In his book, the writer and journalist Alexander Horth talks about Orlova without cheap sensationalism, painstakingly compiling her portrait from a mosaic of documents, roles and memories of many people who knew her.