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In October 1967 the first Soviet horror movie, "Viy" (after Nikolay Gogol's novella of the same name) was premiered. Here Varley provided another striking performance, now as Pannochka, a murdered witch, rising off her coffin to torment and finally kill a hapless seminary student (played by Leonid Kuravlyov), who had inadvertently brought about her death. Several other films of the late 1960s featured Natalya Varley, who has by now left the Moscow Circus to become a Boris Shchukin Theatre Institute student. Among them were
Natalya Varley
Natalya Varley (, born June 22, 1947) is a Soviet and Russian film and theater actress, who became famous in 1966 for her part in the comedy "Kidnapping, Caucasian Style". In 1989 she was designated as a Meritorious Artist of RSFSR.
Biography.
Natalya Varley was born in Constanţa, Romania, a daughter of the sea captain Vladimir Viktorovich Varley, who was also a one-time City Council chairman (Mayor, in modern terms) of Murmansk where the family lived.