Vera Komissarzhevskaya
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Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya was a Russian actress and theatre manager.
Vera Komissarzhevskaya on postcard before 1910
Komissarzhevskaya as Nora, A Doll's House, 1904
Komissarzhevskaya on a 1960 stamp
The Seagull
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The Seagull is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896. The Seagull is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays. It dramatizes the rom
Vera Komissarzhevskaya
…Stanislavski's Society of Art and Literature. She is probably best known today for originating the role of Nina in the ill-fated premiere of Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg in 1896. Though the production was deemed an utter failure, Komissarzhevskaya's performance was highly…
Maly Theatre production in 2008
Guest cottage at Melikhovo where Chekhov wrote The Seagull
Chekhov reads The Seagull with the Moscow Art Theatre company. Chekhov reads (centre), Konstantin Stanislavski and Olga Knipper (right), Stanislavski's wife, Maria Lilina, (left). Vsevolod Meyerhold (seated, far right) Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko (far left).
Studio portrait of Stanislavski as Trigorin from the 1898 Moscow Art Theatre production