Maria Nikolayevna Yermolova (Russian: ÐœÐ°Ñ€Ð¸Ñ Ð Ð¸ÐºÐ¾Ð»Ð°ÐµÐ²Ð½Ð°
Ермолова; July 15 [O.S. July 3] 1853 in Moscow â€" March 12,
1928, id.) was said to be the greatest actress in the history of the
Maly Theatre in Moscow and the first person to be proclaimed the
"People's Artist of the Republic" (1921).In the course of her 50-year
career, Yermolova particularly excelled in the roles which allowed her
to "emphasize her independence of spirit and her popular heroism in
defiance of corrupt authority", as the Encyclopædia Britannica put
it. Her contemporary and fellow Russian actor Constantin Stanislavski
proclaimed her the greatest actress he had ever observed, thus placing
her above Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse.From 1889 to 1928 she
lived in a house on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow.Following her death,
her flat was designated a national monument, and the Yermolova Theatre
in the Tverskoy District of Moscow still bears her name. A minor
planet 3657 Ermolova, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila
Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after her. Ermolova crater on Venus is
also named in her honor.
Ермолова; July 15 [O.S. July 3] 1853 in Moscow â€" March 12,
1928, id.) was said to be the greatest actress in the history of the
Maly Theatre in Moscow and the first person to be proclaimed the
"People's Artist of the Republic" (1921).In the course of her 50-year
career, Yermolova particularly excelled in the roles which allowed her
to "emphasize her independence of spirit and her popular heroism in
defiance of corrupt authority", as the Encyclopædia Britannica put
it. Her contemporary and fellow Russian actor Constantin Stanislavski
proclaimed her the greatest actress he had ever observed, thus placing
her above Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse.From 1889 to 1928 she
lived in a house on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow.Following her death,
her flat was designated a national monument, and the Yermolova Theatre
in the Tverskoy District of Moscow still bears her name. A minor
planet 3657 Ermolova, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila
Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after her. Ermolova crater on Venus is
also named in her honor.
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