Vera Komissarzhevskaya

Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya (Russian Вера Фёдоровна Комиссаржевская; * 27 Oktoberjul / November 8 1864greg in Saint Petersburg, .. .. † 10 Februarjul / February 23 1910greg in Tashkent) was the most famous Russian actress at the turn of the century from the 19th to 20th century.

Life

She was the daughter of Fyodor Komissarschewski, a tenor at the Mariinsky Theatre, and the sister of Theodor Komissarschewski, who was a famous theater director. At 19 she married Count Murawjow, but kept her surname after marriage at. Since 1896, she played at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in St. Petersburg. Your greatest triumph had the role of Nina Zaretschnaja at the premiere of Chekhov's " The Seagull". In 1904 she founded her own theater, the very successful it turned out to spread the ideas of the Russian Symbolism among the aristocracy. The theater was conducted in 1906 by Vsevolod Meyerhold, but his idiosyncratic ideas led the following year to break with her.

Vera Komissarzhevskaya died in 1910 while on tour in Central Asia of smallpox. Your unexpected death made her admirers affected and caused, for example, Alexander Blok some poems.

A theater in St. Petersburg bears her name. 1980, a biographical film in the Soviet Union was shot, in which she was played by Natalia Saiko.