Emiliya Milton(1902-1978)
- Actress
Emiliya Milton was a tall and elegant character stage and film actress
in the Soviet Union. She was born Emiliya Davydovna Milton, on May 15,
1902, in the Russian Empire, into a Russian-Jewish family. During the
1920s and 1930s she was a leading actress with "Krasny Fakel"
Proletariat Theatre in Moscow, and also toured with that troupe all
over the USSR. During the 1940s and 1950s she worked as an actress with
the Kiev Theatre of Russian Drama, then at Mossoveta Theatre in Moscow.
From 1950s - 1970s she was a permanent member of the troupe at Gogol
Drama Theatre in Moscow. There he shared stage with Viktor Khokhryakov, Boris Chirkov,
Aleksei Krasnopolsky, Vladimir Samoylov, and other notable Russian actors. She is best known
for her brilliant performance in the role as Frau Zaurich, opposite
Vyacheslav Tikhonov, in the popular Russian TV series Seventeen Moments of Spring (1973). Emiliya Milton was
also regarded as a popular radio actress. She was married to
actor/director Aleksei Krasnopolsky. She was designated Honorable Actor
of Russia in 1962. She died of natural causes on February 12, 1978, in
Moscow, Russia.
