Alla Tarasova handwritten note, size 14 cm x 22 cm. addressed to student and teaching personals of the Moscow State University: “Dear comrades, how glad it is to feel that the heart we have given you is reaching you. People's Artist of the USSR A. Tarasova”

Alla Konstantinovna Tarasova (1897 –1973) was a leading actress of Constantin Stanislavsky’s Moscow Art Theatre from the late 1920s onward. A title role in Anna Karenina (1937) was her most resounding success. She appeared to mixed reviews as Katerina in the screen version of Ostrovsky’s The Storm (1934) and as Catherine I in the movie Peter the Great (1937). Tarasova toured London and United States with the Moscow Art Theatre in 1922-1924 to much international acclaim. She was a recipient of five Stalin State Prizes (in 1941, twice in 1946, 1947, and 1949), two Order of Lenin and the honorary title of People’s Artist of the USSR in 1937 Rare.