Olga Vladimirovna Gzovskaya

Olga Gtsovskaya and Vladimir Gaidarov .

Olga Wladimirowna Gsowskaja , also known as Olga Gzowskaja or Olga Gsovskaja ( Russian Ольга Владимировна Гзовская ; * October 10, 1883 in Moscow , Russia ; † June 2, 1962 in Leningrad , USSR ), was a Russian actress.

Live and act

Olga Gsovskaja attended a secondary school for girls in Moscow until 1898 before completing her artistic training with Konstantin Stanislawski at the Imperial Theater School in her hometown at the age of 18 . She later said she also took dance lessons from Isadora Duncan and Ellen Tells.

Olga Gzovskaya joined the theater in September 1905 and made her debut at the Maly Theater on October 1 of the same year with Ariel in William Shakespeare's The Tempest . At the Moscow Imperial Theater she was later seen several times in Shakespeare plays (Desdemona in Othello , Ophelia in Hamlet , Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing ) but also in adaptations of models by Gerhart Hauptmann, Pushkin, George Bernard Shaws, Oscar Wildes, Goldonis and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. Olga Gsovskaja could also be seen in Stanislawski's Art Theater. During a guest performance in St. Petersburg, where Olga Gsowskaja embodied Catherine Ivanovna in guilt and atonement , she claims to have received a personal gift from Tsar Nicholas II for her performance .

In 1914, Olga Gsovskaja gave guest performances in Western Europe, during which she was arrested as a possible Russian spy during the July crisis in Germany and imprisoned in Cologne. Only after the intervention of the then theater director of Braunschweig, Baron von Wangenheim, was she released again and was able to travel home to Russia. In 1916 Gsovskaja made her debut in front of the camera and played leading roles in a series of productions Jakow Protasanow . It was at this time that she met fellow actor Vladimir Gaidarov , who became both her film partner and, in 1920, her husband.

Together they left their now Soviet homeland in November 1920 and initially stayed afloat with theater guest performances in Reval (today: Tallinn, Estonia) and Riga (Latvia). In March 1921 they both moved to Berlin. Here the Gaidarov couple continued their film career. Olga Gaidarow was seen on German theaters in Munich, Nuremberg and Berlin, among others, and other guest appearances took her to Paris, Reval (Tallinn) and Riga. In Berlin, where she was also shown in the “Tribüne” in 1921, the Gaidarow couple opened their own small stage in the same year and performed the play with Olga Gaidarow in the title role and directed by Vladimir Gaidarow, who also played a part “Salome” for the performance.

When the National Socialists came to power at the beginning of 1933, Vladimir and Olga Gaidarow returned to the Soviet Union and settled in Leningrad in 1934. There both held readings and literary lectures. Olga Gsovskaja / Gaidarowa hardly returned in front of the camera.

Filmography

• 1916: Schenzina s kinschalom (Женщина с кинжалом)
• 1917: Jeie schertwa (Ее жертва)
• 1917: Kresni put (Крестный путь)
• 1917: Ne nado krowi (Не надо крови)
• 1917: Jejo vleklo buschujuscheje morje (Её влекло бушующее море)
• 1918: Metel (Метель)
• 1918: Greschnaja Dschenni (Грешная Дженни)
• 1918: Iola (Иола)
• 1921: The intrigues of Madame de la Pommeraye
• 1922: Psicha, the dancer Katherina the Great
• 1924: love life
• 1924: Reluctant impostor
• 1933: Stepnije pjesin (Степные песни)

literature

• Kurt Mühsam / Egon Jacobsohn: Lexicon of the film . Lichtbildbühne publishing house, Berlin 1926. P. 71 f.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Life data according to Honig / Rodek "100.001" and Russian Wikipedia. Mühsam / Jacobsohn give the very unlikely (and named by Gsovskaja himself) year "1895"

Web links

• Olga Gzovskaya in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Olga Gsowskaja in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Olga Wladimirowna Gzowskaja at filmportal.de