Olga Petrovna Khodataeva (Russian: Ольга Петровна
Ходатаева; 26 February [O.S. 14 February] 1894 â€" 10 April
1968) was a Soviet artist, animation director, animator and art
director, one of the pioneers of the Soviet animation industry along
with her brother Nikolai Khodataev. She is mostly remembered for her
adaptations of traditional Slavic and Northern fairy tales.Olga
Khodataeva was born in the Konstantinovskaya stanitsa (modern-day
Konstantinovsk, Rostov Oblast of Russia), one of the three children of
a tsarist official Peter Petrovich Khodataev. Her father was an
illegitimate son of Agafia Kondratievna Khodataeva and a merchant from
the Vladimir Governorate who seduced and left Agafia shortly after.
Peter studied in the Rostov-on-Don realschule and married a local
midwife Anna. He made a successful career and in 1898 moved his family
to Moscow.Both Olga and her elder brother Nikolai Khodataev became
interested in painting early in their lives. They both entered the
Moscow School of Painting, Sculpture and Architecture to study fine
art and graduated in 1918. During the next six years Olga had worked
as a graphic arts and a scenic designer.In 1924 her brother along with
the fellow artists Yuri Merkulov and Zenon Komissarenko organized an
experimental workshop under the State School of Cinematography, the
first Soviet animation studio where they produced a cutout short
Interplanetary Revoluion. Soon they were hired by the Soviet
government to create an animated feature film China in Flames to
support the Chinese national liberation movement. Because of the
complexity of the work they invited a number of other young artists,
including Olga. With 1000 meters of film and 14 frames per second the
cartoon ran over 50 minutes at the time, which made it one of the
world's first animated features. Olga Khodataeva Biography, Weight & Height, Age, Nationality & Ethnicity
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