Soviet and Russian actress Alla Demidova, who turns 90 today, built a career on firsts. One of them was speaking the word ‘erection’ on a Russian stage.

Alla Demidova turned 90 on September 29. An actress, writer, and scholar of Russia’s Silver Age, she has always worked in film and theater with top-tier directors from Russia and abroad, including Andrei Tarkovsky, Kira Muratova, Yuri Lyubimov, Anatoly Efros, Roman Viktyuk, Kirill Serebrennikov, Gio