Liubov Hakkebush

Liubov Mykhailivna Hakkebush (26 September 1888 – 28 May 1947) was a Ukrainian stage actress, teacher, and translator. People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR. She appeared in over 80 leading and supporting roles, including the most well-known roles of Lady Macbeth in William Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Fru Alving in Ibsen's Ghosts.

Early life and education Liubov Hakkebush was born on 26 September 1888 in Nemyriv, Russian Empire. She studied at the Moscow Kamerny Theater and appeared in amateur productions staged by the Kobzar Ukrainian club in Moscow.

Career Hakkebush debuted in 1917 on the stage of Ukrainian People’s Theater in Kyiv in the role of Miss (Autumn by Oleksandr Oles).

Hakkebush worked at the Berezil Theater from 1922 to 1926. Hakkebush worked at Kharkiv Chervonozavodsk Ukrainian drama theater until 1933.

Hakkebush sheltered artist Ivan Kavaleridze in her apartment in Kyiv after the film studio evicted him from his office apartment accusing him of his stay under German occupation.

Liubov Hakkebush died on 28 May 1947 in Kyiv.

In 1970, a granite memorial plaque was installed on the facade of the house where Lyubov Gakkebush lived in 1938-47 on 17, Velyka Zhytomyska Street in Kyiv.