Olga Pyzhova

Olga Ivanovna Pyzhova (29 October 1894, Moscow—7 or 8 November 1972, Moscow; О́льга Ива́новна Пыжо́ва) was a Russian stage actress, director, and teacher. She spent her early years with the Moscow Art Theatre before moving to the Revolution Theatre in 1928. She taught and directed at several schools and theatres, including Lunacharsky State Institute for Theatre Arts (GITIS), All-Union State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK), Moscow Central Children's Theater, and Auezov Theater. Her awards included Honored Artist of the RSFSR (1947), People's Artist of the Tatar Autonomous Soviet Socialist Republic (1949), the People's Artist of the Tajik SSR (1964), and a Medal "For Valiant Labour in the Great Patriotic War 1941–1945", as well as a State Stalin Prize in the third degree for her and her husband's production of Sergey Mikhalkov's play I Want to Go Home.