Pola Negri

Pola Negri (; born Barbara Apolonia Chałupiec The spelling of Pola Negri's surname at birth is complicated not only by the difference between the Latin and Polish alphabets, but also by the fact that she was born in what was the Russian partition of Poland, at a time in which the use of Polish was suppressed and all government records, including her birth certificate, were kept in Russian using the Cyrillic alphabet, which is even less suitable for transcribing Polish... meer