Vera Kholodnaia

[Emil Draitser]

Dear SEELANGers:
Does anybody know how the star of Russian silent movies, Vera Kholodnaia,
looked like? For a project at hand I need at least a verbal description
of her. I looked into several books on the film industry of
pre-revolutionary Russia, and did not find neither her portrait nor a
description. I know that there are old Russian films on video now. But I
hardly can manage to see them earlier than in a week or ten days, and I
am on a deadline. What I need is just a few features of her - was she
blonde or brunette, did she have dark or light eyes, was she tall, etc.
Nothing much more specific. If anybody has at least an approximate idea
of how she looked, it would do...
Thank you in advance.

Emil Draitser

P.S. I know that Mikhalkov's "Raba liubvi" was loosely based on Vera
Kholodnaia's story. But was Elena Solovey's appearance  in the film
made look like Vera?