Elizaveta Nikolayevna Goreva (Russian: Елизавета
Риколаевна Ð"орева, née Voronina, 1859â€"18 July 1917)
was a Russian theatre actress and entrepreneur.Born in Poltava,
Ukraine (then part of Russian Empire) to the head of the city police
department, she lost both her parents early in life, and was raised by
a relative, Nikolal Miloslavsky, a well known actor of his time who
gave her first drama lessons. Under his guidance she debuted on stage
the Odessa Theatre, then moved to Kharkiv, and later Saratov and
Rostov-on-Don. In the 1878-1879 season she worked in Taganrog, the
next year returned to Odessa and in 1880 found herself in Vilno where
she succeeded the recently deceased prima A.N. Melnikova-Samoilova as
Mary, Queen of Scots in Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, to much
public and critical acclaim.In winter 1881-1882 Goreva worked with the
Tiflis theatre, then in the spring found herself in St Petersburg's
Alexandrinka and had success as Maryitsa in Dmitry Averkiyev's
Kashirskaya Starina (Old Times in Kashira).Having failed to secure a
long-term engagement, she traveled to Irkutsk. Here, after having
divorced the Maly Theatre actor Fyodor Gorev (whom she married in her
youth), she spent two years with the city theatre and was celebrated
as a star, after the huge success she had as Medea in the eponymous
tragedy by Alexey Suvorin and Viktor Burenin.
Риколаевна Ð"орева, née Voronina, 1859â€"18 July 1917)
was a Russian theatre actress and entrepreneur.Born in Poltava,
Ukraine (then part of Russian Empire) to the head of the city police
department, she lost both her parents early in life, and was raised by
a relative, Nikolal Miloslavsky, a well known actor of his time who
gave her first drama lessons. Under his guidance she debuted on stage
the Odessa Theatre, then moved to Kharkiv, and later Saratov and
Rostov-on-Don. In the 1878-1879 season she worked in Taganrog, the
next year returned to Odessa and in 1880 found herself in Vilno where
she succeeded the recently deceased prima A.N. Melnikova-Samoilova as
Mary, Queen of Scots in Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, to much
public and critical acclaim.In winter 1881-1882 Goreva worked with the
Tiflis theatre, then in the spring found herself in St Petersburg's
Alexandrinka and had success as Maryitsa in Dmitry Averkiyev's
Kashirskaya Starina (Old Times in Kashira).Having failed to secure a
long-term engagement, she traveled to Irkutsk. Here, after having
divorced the Maly Theatre actor Fyodor Gorev (whom she married in her
youth), she spent two years with the city theatre and was celebrated
as a star, after the huge success she had as Medea in the eponymous
tragedy by Alexey Suvorin and Viktor Burenin.
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