Farewell to St. Petersburg () is a 1972 Soviet biopic film directed by Yan Frid. The film is about the Austrian composer Johann Strauss's stay in Russia, his concerts in Pavlovsk in the summer of 1857, and his love towards the Russian aristocrat Olga Smirnitskiy, to whom he dedicated several works.
Cast
Girt Yakovlev - Johann Strauss (voiced by Aleksandr Demyanenko) Tatyana Bedova - Olga Smirnitskaya, Russian aristocrat Tatyana Piletskaya - Natalia G. Smirnitskaya Vasili Merkuryev - Leybrok Pavel Kadochnikov - Pavel Maksimov Igor Dmitriev - Grand Duke Sergey Karnovich-Valois - manager Yelena Anderegg as Olga Nikolayevna (as Ye. Anderegg) Viktoriya Gorshenina Pavel Kashlakov as Nechayev
Awards
Director Yan Frid received honorary diplomas at the Film Festival of Workers in Czechoslovakia (1973).