Esfir Shub

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Esfir Shub in Soviet Screen 27 (July 1927).
Portrait of Shub by Alexander Rodchenko, 1924.

Esfir Shub (Эсфи́рь Ильи́нична Шуб, 1894–1959) was a pioneering Soviet filmmaker and editor in both the mainstream and documentary fields. She is best known for her trilogy of films, Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927), The Great Road (1927), and the Russia of Nicholas II and Leo Tolstoy (1928). Shub is credited as the creator of compilation film.

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