Maria Nikolayevna Krasovskaya-Kalitinskaya (Russian: МариÑ
Риколаевна ÐšÑ€Ð°Ñ Ð¾Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ -ÐšÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ , née
Bychkova (Ð'ычкова), 1884, â€" 9 April 1940) was a Russian
actress, theatre director and reader in drama, better known under her
stage name Maria Germanova (Ð"ерманова).Maria Bychkova was
born in Moscow into a family of the staroobryadtsy merchants. She
studied at the First Moscow Gymnasium, where Olga Gzovskaya was one of
her classmates. In 1901 she enrolled in the just opened Moscow Art
Theatre Drama School and a year later joined the MAT troupe, as Maria
Germanova.She debuted in 1903 in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, then
garnered positive reviews as Elena in Maxim Gorky's Children of the
Sun (1905), Sofya in Griboyedov's Woe from Wit and Agnes in Henrik
Ibsen's Brand (both 1906). It was mostly upon Germanova's stage
persona that Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko has relied upon in his
stage experiments, which included Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin
(her as Marina Mnishek, 1907), Anathema by Leonid Andreyev (Rosa,
1909), The Karamazov Brothers by Dostoyevsky (Grushenka, 1910), Leo
Tolstoy's The Living Corpse (Lisa Protasova, 1911). "The physical
beauty, the reverberating nerve beat, the sharp perceptiveness"
(according to the biographer Inna Solovyova) as well as her love of
modernism ('decadent' was also the word that has been used to describe
her close circle of friends) made Germanova one of the rising stars of
the early 1900s' Russian theatre scene, and "a promising tragic
actress in the vein of Duse".In 1914-1924 Germanova starred in five
Russian silent films, starting with Anna Karenina in 1914, directed by
Vladimir Gardin and produced by Paul Timan.
Риколаевна ÐšÑ€Ð°Ñ Ð¾Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ -ÐšÐ°Ð»Ð¸Ñ‚Ð¸Ð½Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ , née
Bychkova (Ð'ычкова), 1884, â€" 9 April 1940) was a Russian
actress, theatre director and reader in drama, better known under her
stage name Maria Germanova (Ð"ерманова).Maria Bychkova was
born in Moscow into a family of the staroobryadtsy merchants. She
studied at the First Moscow Gymnasium, where Olga Gzovskaya was one of
her classmates. In 1901 she enrolled in the just opened Moscow Art
Theatre Drama School and a year later joined the MAT troupe, as Maria
Germanova.She debuted in 1903 in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, then
garnered positive reviews as Elena in Maxim Gorky's Children of the
Sun (1905), Sofya in Griboyedov's Woe from Wit and Agnes in Henrik
Ibsen's Brand (both 1906). It was mostly upon Germanova's stage
persona that Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko has relied upon in his
stage experiments, which included Boris Godunov by Alexander Pushkin
(her as Marina Mnishek, 1907), Anathema by Leonid Andreyev (Rosa,
1909), The Karamazov Brothers by Dostoyevsky (Grushenka, 1910), Leo
Tolstoy's The Living Corpse (Lisa Protasova, 1911). "The physical
beauty, the reverberating nerve beat, the sharp perceptiveness"
(according to the biographer Inna Solovyova) as well as her love of
modernism ('decadent' was also the word that has been used to describe
her close circle of friends) made Germanova one of the rising stars of
the early 1900s' Russian theatre scene, and "a promising tragic
actress in the vein of Duse".In 1914-1924 Germanova starred in five
Russian silent films, starting with Anna Karenina in 1914, directed by
Vladimir Gardin and produced by Paul Timan.
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