Nina Agadzhanova
| Nina Agadzhanova (Shutko) | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Antonina Nikolaevna Batorovskaya 27 October / 8 November 1889 Krasnodar, Russia |
| Died | 14 December 1974 Moscow, Russia |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Other names | Nune Agadzhanova (Shutko), Nuneh Agadzhanova (Shutko), N.F. Agadzhanova (Shutko), Nina Ferdinandova Agadzhanova |
| Occupation | Screenwriter, film director, revolutionary |
Nina Agadzhanova (Shutko) (27 October / 8 November 1889, Ekaterinodar, now Krasnodar – 14 December 1974, Moscow) was a Soviet revolutionary, screenwriter, and film director. She is most widely recognized for writing The Year 1905, the original screenplay from which Battleship Potemkin was created.
Agadzhanova first joined the Bolshevik faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (which would later become the CPSU) in 1907 while studying philosophy and history at university in Ekaterinodar. From 1907 to 1914 conducted illegal work for the party, helping to create Bolshevik networks between Voronezh, Oryol, Moscow, Iranovo-Voznesensk, and Petersburg. From 1914 to 1915 Agadzhanova was a member of the Vyborg Committee of the Bolshevik party in the Petrograd Soviet. During this time, she also functioned as the executive secretary of Rabotnitsa, a periodical dedicated to the issues of women workers. It is estimated that Agadzhanova was arrested a total of five times and exiled twice during her time working as a Bolshevik revolutionary before the Russian Revolution in 1917.
Agadzhanova participated actively in both the February and October Revolutions of 1917. After the revolution, she was drafted to participate in an underground propaganda mission among the White Guard forces in Novorossiysk and Rostov-on-Don. She later wrote a screenplay based on her experiences during the mission titled In The White Roses. In 1919 she served as a member of the underground Don Oblast committee of the CPSU, until she was drafted to become the executive secretary of the Byelorussian Revolutionary Military Committee in 1920. From 1921-22 she was drafted to work at the Soviet embassy in Prague.
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