Maria Nikolaevna Yermolova

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Maria Yermolova 1905; a portrait of Valentin Serov
Yermolova's tomb

Maria Yermolova ( Russian Мария Николаевна Ермолова , scientific. Transliteration Marija Nikolaevna Ermolova , July 3 * . Jul / 15. July  1853 greg. In Moscow ; † 12. March 1928 ibid) was a major Russian drama actress at the Moscow MAlY Theater .

Life

Yermolova was born the daughter of a Moscow prompter who worked in the Maly Theater, founded in 1756. At the age of ten she went to the Imperial Theater School (today the Shchepkin Theater School), where she first attended a ballet class . However, the young Yermolova became increasingly enthusiastic about acting instead of ballet, preferably for tragic roles. Yermolova had her first serious appearance in early 1870, when she had to stand in for another actress: She played the leading role in a performance of Lessing's Emilia Galotti and was henceforth successful. Before graduating from theater school in 1871, she played in several other roles and had solid experience on the stage by the time she left school. In 1871 Yermolova was accepted into the acting troupe of the Maly Theater, where she stayed until the end of her career.

From the mid-1870s onwards, since the overwhelming success of the staging of the Ostrowski play Das Gewitter at the Maly Theater, Marija Yermolova played almost all of the leading female roles from the repertoire of this playhouse and was one of Russia's most renowned actresses at the end of the 19th century . In 1881 the budding writer Anton Chekhov dedicated his first play Vaterlos to her, but his wish to have the play staged at the Maly Theater failed. He was only able to get to know Yermolova personally in 1890 (on this he wrote to the poet Pleschtschejew on February 15 : "After lunch at the star, I felt star lights around my head for two days").

Yermolova received the honorary title of " People's Artist of the Republic " in 1920 . In 1921 she ended her acting career and died in Moscow in 1928. Her grave is in the cemetery of the New Maiden Monastery . A theater in Moscow, founded in 1925 and located on Tverskaya Street , received its name during Yermolova's lifetime.

Roles (selection)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ MPGromov: Tropa k Čechovu . Moscow 2004, ISBN 5-08-004111-0 , pp. 135 f.
  2. ↑ Евлалия Кадмина - забытая гордость Калуги , kp40.ru

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personal data
SURNAME Yermolova, Marija Nikolajewna
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ermolova, Marija Nikolaevna; Ермо́лова, Мари́я Никола́евна (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION eminent Russian drama actress at Moscow's Maly Theater
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1853
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH March 12, 1928
Place of death Moscow