Love Orlova. Hort A.

The People's Artist of the USSR Lyubov Petrovna Orlova (1902 - 1975) had the opportunity to become the first Soviet film star, a favorite of several generations of spectators. In abundance endowed with beauty, talent, adoration of the public and the attention of men, nevertheless, she could not avoid neither everyday dramas nor creative failures. The actress carefully protected her life from outsiders’s intervention, so her biography still keeps many secrets. In his book, writer and journalist Alexander Hort talks about Orlova without cheap sensation, painstakingly composing her portrait from the mosaic of documents, roles and memoirs of many people who knew her.