Komisarjevskaya, Vera Fedorovna
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Komisarjevskaya, Vera Fedorovna (1864–1910), Russian actress and theatre manager, sister of Theodore
Komisarjevsky. She made her début in 1891 as Betsy in Leo
Tolstoy's The Fruits of Enlightenment and in 1896 went to the Alexandrinsky (see
PUSHKIN THEATRE) where she played Nina in the ill-fated first production of
Chekhov's The Seagull. She left in 1904 to found her own theatre, where in the midst of the social upheavals of 1905 her productions included plays by
Gorky, Chekhov, and
Ibsen. A year later she came under the influence of
Symbolism, inviting
Meyerhold to produce in her theatre, but soon breaking with him. On tour again she caught smallpox and died. She never appeared in England, but in 1908 played a season at
Daly's in New York. She was at her best in such parts as Gretchen in
Goethe's Faust, Rosy in
Sudermann's The Battle of the Butterflies, and Ibsen's Nora, in
A Doll's House, and Hedda Gabler.
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