Maria Lyudomirovna Petrovskaya (Russian: МариÑ
Людомировна ÐŸÐµÑ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ , 4 May 1874 - 11 January
1958) was a Russian stage actress associated with the Moscow Art
Theatre, better known under her stage name Roksanova (Ð
Ð¾ÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð°).A Nemirovich-Danchenko student at the Philharmonic
Institute, Roksanova started out at the Vilno-based Konstantin
Nezlobin's enterprise, then performed in Odessa for a while for the
Solovtsov group. She then joined MAT in 1898, invited by Stanislavski
who'd seen saw her performance in August 1897 in one of the Moscow
region theatres. During the first season she played Princess
Mstislavskaya in Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich and Ismene in Antigona so
great hopes were pinned on her as Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull which
seemed to be a part she was born for. But not long before that
Nemirovich-Danchenko's production of Greta's Happiness, with her in
the lead, dismally flopped. Roksanova, thrown off her balance, gave a
flawed performance as Nina. Adding to her trouble was the fact that,
according to Nemirovich-Danchenko, she had been disoriented by
Stanislavsky's views of the interpretation of the part which
contradicted his own one.Chekhov, with uncharacteristic harshness,
demanded that some other actress should substitute Roksanova in his
play. The role remained hers, but the damage done to her stage
integrity proved to be irrevocable, according to theatre historian
Inna Solovyova. Roksanova played Hanne in Drayman Henschel, Kupava in
The Snow Maiden and Tatyana in Maxim Gorky's The Philistines to some
acclaim, but decided to leave the theatre in 1902, to join Vsevolod
Meyerkhold's New Drama. Later she moved to Saint Petersburg's New
Theatre, then, with her husband, the actor N.N. Mikhaylovsky, to Riga.
In 1923 Roksanova returned to MAT and up until 1927 worked for the
theatre's Fourth Studio. Later in the decade, she emigrated, but
before the War returned to USSR and joined the Chamber Theatre
(Камерный театр). She died in 1958 in the Old Actor's
House in Moscow.
Людомировна ÐŸÐµÑ‚Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ñ ÐºÐ°Ñ , 4 May 1874 - 11 January
1958) was a Russian stage actress associated with the Moscow Art
Theatre, better known under her stage name Roksanova (Ð
Ð¾ÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð¾Ð²Ð°).A Nemirovich-Danchenko student at the Philharmonic
Institute, Roksanova started out at the Vilno-based Konstantin
Nezlobin's enterprise, then performed in Odessa for a while for the
Solovtsov group. She then joined MAT in 1898, invited by Stanislavski
who'd seen saw her performance in August 1897 in one of the Moscow
region theatres. During the first season she played Princess
Mstislavskaya in Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich and Ismene in Antigona so
great hopes were pinned on her as Nina Zarechnaya in The Seagull which
seemed to be a part she was born for. But not long before that
Nemirovich-Danchenko's production of Greta's Happiness, with her in
the lead, dismally flopped. Roksanova, thrown off her balance, gave a
flawed performance as Nina. Adding to her trouble was the fact that,
according to Nemirovich-Danchenko, she had been disoriented by
Stanislavsky's views of the interpretation of the part which
contradicted his own one.Chekhov, with uncharacteristic harshness,
demanded that some other actress should substitute Roksanova in his
play. The role remained hers, but the damage done to her stage
integrity proved to be irrevocable, according to theatre historian
Inna Solovyova. Roksanova played Hanne in Drayman Henschel, Kupava in
The Snow Maiden and Tatyana in Maxim Gorky's The Philistines to some
acclaim, but decided to leave the theatre in 1902, to join Vsevolod
Meyerkhold's New Drama. Later she moved to Saint Petersburg's New
Theatre, then, with her husband, the actor N.N. Mikhaylovsky, to Riga.
In 1923 Roksanova returned to MAT and up until 1927 worked for the
theatre's Fourth Studio. Later in the decade, she emigrated, but
before the War returned to USSR and joined the Chamber Theatre
(Камерный театр). She died in 1958 in the Old Actor's
House in Moscow.
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