Maria Alexandrovna Samarova (Russian: МариÑ
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð° Самарова, Grekova in marriage; 2
April 1852 â€" 31 May 1919) was a Moscow-born Russian and Soviet stage
actress and reader in drama (later a costume salon owner), associated
with the Moscow Art Theatre.An Ivan Samarin's drama class graduate,
Samarova started acting at the Shakespearean and Art and Literature
Societies. In 1898 she became a founder member of the original
Stanislavski troupe and had in the MAT 21 parts, most of which she was
the first performer of. Among her most acclaimed works were Volokhova
(Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich by Alexey K. Tolstoy), Aunt Julia (Hedda
Gabler by Henrik Ibsen), Marina (Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov), Frau
Vockerat (Lonely People, after Einsame Menschen by Gerhart Hauptmann),
Bobylikha (The Snow Maiden by Alexander Ostrovsky), Zankovskaya (In
Dreams by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko), Anfisa (Three Sisters by
Chekhov), Kvashnya (The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky), Zinaida Savishna
(Ivanov by Chekhov), Khlyostova (Woe from Wit by Aleksandr
Griboyedov), Islayeva (A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev),
Glumova (Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man by Alexander
Ostrovsky)."A.M. Samarova: in her early years a charming, slender,
piquant young lady, later in her life, an overweight, venerable grand
dame, extremely bold in her approach to her heroines, whom she always
treated brilliantly, intelligently and with great wit... There was
indeed something very weighty about her stage gift," Stanislavski
remembered.
Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð° Самарова, Grekova in marriage; 2
April 1852 â€" 31 May 1919) was a Moscow-born Russian and Soviet stage
actress and reader in drama (later a costume salon owner), associated
with the Moscow Art Theatre.An Ivan Samarin's drama class graduate,
Samarova started acting at the Shakespearean and Art and Literature
Societies. In 1898 she became a founder member of the original
Stanislavski troupe and had in the MAT 21 parts, most of which she was
the first performer of. Among her most acclaimed works were Volokhova
(Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich by Alexey K. Tolstoy), Aunt Julia (Hedda
Gabler by Henrik Ibsen), Marina (Uncle Vanya by Anton Chekhov), Frau
Vockerat (Lonely People, after Einsame Menschen by Gerhart Hauptmann),
Bobylikha (The Snow Maiden by Alexander Ostrovsky), Zankovskaya (In
Dreams by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko), Anfisa (Three Sisters by
Chekhov), Kvashnya (The Lower Depths by Maxim Gorky), Zinaida Savishna
(Ivanov by Chekhov), Khlyostova (Woe from Wit by Aleksandr
Griboyedov), Islayeva (A Month in the Country by Ivan Turgenev),
Glumova (Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man by Alexander
Ostrovsky)."A.M. Samarova: in her early years a charming, slender,
piquant young lady, later in her life, an overweight, venerable grand
dame, extremely bold in her approach to her heroines, whom she always
treated brilliantly, intelligently and with great wit... There was
indeed something very weighty about her stage gift," Stanislavski
remembered.
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