Maria Gavrilovna Savina (Russian: ÐœÐ°Ñ€Ð¸Ñ Ð"Ð°Ð²Ñ€Ð¸Ì Ð»Ð¾Ð²Ð½Ð°
Ð¡Ð°Ì Ð²Ð¸Ð½Ð°, née Podrame′ntsova, 11 April 1854,
Kamenets-Podolsky, Imperial Russia â€" 21 September 1915, Petrograd,
Imperial Russia) was a renowned Russian stage actress.Born Maria
Podramentsova into a family of stage actors, she debuted in Minsk in
1869, then joined the Mikhail Leontovsky troupe in Kharkov. While
there, she married the actor N. N. Slavich who used the stage name
Savin, and has been known as Marya Savina ever since. In 1874 Savina,
then the leading actress at the Saratov Theatre, moved to Saint
Petersburg to join the Alexandrinsky Theatre. It was there that she
became famous, mostly for her parts in Alexander Ostrovsky's plays
(including Without a Dowry, Talents and Admirers, A Profitable
Position, Hard-Earned Bread, The Last Victim, Vasilisa Melentyeva,
Wild Thing), as well as in Nikolai Gogol's Revizor, Ivan Turgenev's A
Month in the Country and Leo Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness, among
others.In 1883â€"1884 Marya Savina was the head of the All-Russian
Theatres' Union. In 1897 she initiated Russia's First Congress of
Theatres. In 1899 Savina was honoured with the Meritorious Artist
title and successfully performed in Berlin and Prague. Her book of
memoirs Goresti i skitaniya (Tribes and Tribulations) was published in
Moscow in 1961.
Ð¡Ð°Ì Ð²Ð¸Ð½Ð°, née Podrame′ntsova, 11 April 1854,
Kamenets-Podolsky, Imperial Russia â€" 21 September 1915, Petrograd,
Imperial Russia) was a renowned Russian stage actress.Born Maria
Podramentsova into a family of stage actors, she debuted in Minsk in
1869, then joined the Mikhail Leontovsky troupe in Kharkov. While
there, she married the actor N. N. Slavich who used the stage name
Savin, and has been known as Marya Savina ever since. In 1874 Savina,
then the leading actress at the Saratov Theatre, moved to Saint
Petersburg to join the Alexandrinsky Theatre. It was there that she
became famous, mostly for her parts in Alexander Ostrovsky's plays
(including Without a Dowry, Talents and Admirers, A Profitable
Position, Hard-Earned Bread, The Last Victim, Vasilisa Melentyeva,
Wild Thing), as well as in Nikolai Gogol's Revizor, Ivan Turgenev's A
Month in the Country and Leo Tolstoy's The Power of Darkness, among
others.In 1883â€"1884 Marya Savina was the head of the All-Russian
Theatres' Union. In 1897 she initiated Russia's First Congress of
Theatres. In 1899 Savina was honoured with the Meritorious Artist
title and successfully performed in Berlin and Prague. Her book of
memoirs Goresti i skitaniya (Tribes and Tribulations) was published in
Moscow in 1961.
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