Margarita Georgiyevna Savitskaya (Russian: Маргарита
Ð"еоргиевна Ð¡Ð°Ð²Ð¸Ñ†ÐºÐ°Ñ , born 30 October 1868, â€" died
27 March 1911) was a Russian stage actress and in her later years a
reader in drama, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT), a
founding member of the original Stanislavski troupe.Among the parts
she was the first performer of in MAT were Antigona in the Sophocles'
tragedy, Magda in The Sunken Bell by Gerhart Hauptmann, Tsaritsa Maria
in The Death of Ivan the Terrible by Alexey K. Tolstoy, Anna in The
Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, The Spring in Alexander Ostrovsky's Snow
Maiden. Her performance as Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters has been
described (by theatre historian Inna Solovyova) as "outstanding" and
earned praise from Maria Ermolova who became her close friend in late
1900s. Savitskaya, who died in 1911, has been described as "the symbol
of the original MAT's ethics". She was interred in the Novodevichy
Cemetery, next to the Chekhov monument.Georgy Burdzhalov of The Moscow
Art Theatre was her husband.
Ð"еоргиевна Ð¡Ð°Ð²Ð¸Ñ†ÐºÐ°Ñ , born 30 October 1868, â€" died
27 March 1911) was a Russian stage actress and in her later years a
reader in drama, associated with the Moscow Art Theatre (MAT), a
founding member of the original Stanislavski troupe.Among the parts
she was the first performer of in MAT were Antigona in the Sophocles'
tragedy, Magda in The Sunken Bell by Gerhart Hauptmann, Tsaritsa Maria
in The Death of Ivan the Terrible by Alexey K. Tolstoy, Anna in The
Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky, The Spring in Alexander Ostrovsky's Snow
Maiden. Her performance as Olga in Chekhov's Three Sisters has been
described (by theatre historian Inna Solovyova) as "outstanding" and
earned praise from Maria Ermolova who became her close friend in late
1900s. Savitskaya, who died in 1911, has been described as "the symbol
of the original MAT's ethics". She was interred in the Novodevichy
Cemetery, next to the Chekhov monument.Georgy Burdzhalov of The Moscow
Art Theatre was her husband.
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