become state-sponsored, free of charge for domestic students. The full training period was 9 years, junior department from I to V course, and senior department from VI to IX course, and the minimum age of enrollment was 10 years. From 1910 till his death in 1925, Prof. Kipp taught at the senior department. According to Orlova-Aleksandrov's archive holder, layer Aleksander Dobrovinsky, Orlova was voluntarily childless. Dobrovinsky said: "I've found her correspondence with a professor, gynecologist No. 1 in the USSR. There are mainly things of a physiological nature, but they indicate that Lyubov Orlova, one of the first women in the USSR, had inserted a spiral or something like that for contraception. Lyubov Orlova's year of birth was debatable. Her only friend Faina Ranevskaya stated: "Nobody will say how old she is. She is generally brilliant: when they issued passports in the early thirties, no documents were required. You could name any date of birth and any name too ... So Lyubochka did not lose her head and immediately knocked off a dozen years! It was me, the idiot, who hesitated: is it worth it? Then I calculated that I have spent two years at resorts, so the resorts, as they say, do not count, and a new date of birth has appeared in my passport: instead of 1895, 1897. So little that I still cannot forgive myself for such frivolity!" According to Lyubov Orlova's grandniece Nonna Golikova, her grandmother Nonna Orlova (1897-1960), was "two or three years older" than her famous sister. Lyubov Orlova's mother, Evgenia Sukhotina, has changed her passport year of birth from 1863 to 1878, 'nullifying' fifteen years. Gallery See also MV Lyubov Orlova Cinema of the Soviet Union Notes References External links lubov-orlova.ru Lyubov Orlova on Russian Genealogy Foundation Website Records of Lyubov Orlova on website The Encyclopedia of Russian recordings Russian-Records.com "Ее советское сиятельство", ("Her Soviet Serenity") an article in Kommersant-Money 1902 births 1975 deaths People from Zvenigorod People from Zvenigorodsky Uyezd (Moscow Governorate) Russian nobility Soviet film actresses Soviet pianists Soviet sopranos Russian female dancers Russian women singers Russian film actresses Russian sopranos Russian women pianists Soviet female dancers Soviet women singers 20th-century Russian actresses 20th-century Russian women singers 20th-century Russian singers Articles containing video clips Russian Academy of Theatre Arts alumni Russian people of World War II Women in World War II People's Artists of the USSR People's Artists of the RSFSR