Nadezhda Nikolayevna Bromley (Russian: Радежда
Риколаевна Ð'ромлей, 17 April 1884 â€" 25 May 1966)
was a Russian and Soviet actress, theatre director, poet, short story
writer and playwright, the Meritorious Artist of RSFSR (1932).Born in
Moscow to Nikolai (Carl) Eduardovich Bromley, a Russian industrialist
of English origins, Nadezhda Bromley graduated from the Music and
Drama School at the Russian Philharmonics and in 1908 joined the
Moscow Art Theatre, with which she stayed until 1922. In 1911 she
debuted as a poet with the collection Pathos (ÐŸÐ°Ñ„Ð¾Ñ ),
experimenting in the vein of early Russian futurism and was for a
while close to the Centrifuge group, led by Nikolai Aseyev and Boris
Pasternak.In 1918 she joined the MAT First Studio where she had
moderate success as an actress (the nymph queen Goplana in Balladyna
by Juliusz SÅ‚owacki, Erik's mother in August Strindberg's Erik XIV,
Lear's fool in King Lear) and also debuted as a director, with The
Daughter of Iorio by Gabriele D'Annunzio. Her own play The King of the
Square Republic (Король Квадратной
Ñ€ÐµÑ Ð¿ÑƒÐ±Ð»Ð¸ÐºÐ¸, 1925) was staged by Boris Sushkevich (her second
husband) in MAT 2 (which had evolved from MAT 1 in 1924). Before that
Yevgeny Vakhtangov had made an attempt to produce her tragicomedy
Archangel Michael but it has never premiered. Bromley's short stories
came out in two collections, The Confession of the Unwise
(Ð˜Ñ Ð¿Ð¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÑŒ неразумных, 1927) and Gargantua's
Descendant (Потомок Ð"аргантюа, 1930).In 1932 she was
awarded the title Meritorious Artist of RSFSR and in 1933 moved to
Leningrad. She joined the Academic Pushkin Theatre where she played
(to much acclaim) Catherine the First in Peter the First by Alexey
Nikolayevich Tolstoy (which she also directed) as well as produced and
directed numerous plays including her own, The Duel (1934), after the
eponymous Anton Chekhov's novella. Her late 1930s and 1950s
productions have been described as "colourful and flamboyant." In
1944-1956 she headed the Leningrad Novy Theatre, was a reader in drama
and translated several plays into Russian.
Риколаевна Ð'ромлей, 17 April 1884 â€" 25 May 1966)
was a Russian and Soviet actress, theatre director, poet, short story
writer and playwright, the Meritorious Artist of RSFSR (1932).Born in
Moscow to Nikolai (Carl) Eduardovich Bromley, a Russian industrialist
of English origins, Nadezhda Bromley graduated from the Music and
Drama School at the Russian Philharmonics and in 1908 joined the
Moscow Art Theatre, with which she stayed until 1922. In 1911 she
debuted as a poet with the collection Pathos (ÐŸÐ°Ñ„Ð¾Ñ ),
experimenting in the vein of early Russian futurism and was for a
while close to the Centrifuge group, led by Nikolai Aseyev and Boris
Pasternak.In 1918 she joined the MAT First Studio where she had
moderate success as an actress (the nymph queen Goplana in Balladyna
by Juliusz SÅ‚owacki, Erik's mother in August Strindberg's Erik XIV,
Lear's fool in King Lear) and also debuted as a director, with The
Daughter of Iorio by Gabriele D'Annunzio. Her own play The King of the
Square Republic (Король Квадратной
Ñ€ÐµÑ Ð¿ÑƒÐ±Ð»Ð¸ÐºÐ¸, 1925) was staged by Boris Sushkevich (her second
husband) in MAT 2 (which had evolved from MAT 1 in 1924). Before that
Yevgeny Vakhtangov had made an attempt to produce her tragicomedy
Archangel Michael but it has never premiered. Bromley's short stories
came out in two collections, The Confession of the Unwise
(Ð˜Ñ Ð¿Ð¾Ð²ÐµÐ´ÑŒ неразумных, 1927) and Gargantua's
Descendant (Потомок Ð"аргантюа, 1930).In 1932 she was
awarded the title Meritorious Artist of RSFSR and in 1933 moved to
Leningrad. She joined the Academic Pushkin Theatre where she played
(to much acclaim) Catherine the First in Peter the First by Alexey
Nikolayevich Tolstoy (which she also directed) as well as produced and
directed numerous plays including her own, The Duel (1934), after the
eponymous Anton Chekhov's novella. Her late 1930s and 1950s
productions have been described as "colourful and flamboyant." In
1944-1956 she headed the Leningrad Novy Theatre, was a reader in drama
and translated several plays into Russian.
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