Biography

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Irma Yakovlevna Raush (Russian: Ирма Яковлевна Рауш; born 21 April 1938) (aka Irina Yakovleva and Irina Tarkovskaya) is a Russian actress and the first wife of film director Andrei Tarkovsky. She is best known for her role as Durochka in Andrei Rublev and as Ivan's mother in Ivan's Childhood. Irma Raush was born in Saratov on 21 April 1938 into a Volga German family. In 1954 she began to study at the State Institute of Cinematography (VGIK) under Mikhail Romm. She was in the same class as Andrei Tarkovsky, whom she married in April 1957. On 30 September 1962 their son Arseny Tarkovsky was born. They div...Read More