(native name Krasovskaya-Kalitinskaya) Russian actress, director, teacher. Born in 1884 in the family of Moscow merchants-old believers. She studied at the First Moscow Mariinsky Gymnasium in the same class with O.V. Gzovskaya and E.N. Roshchina-Insarova. One of the first pupils of the School of Art Theatre, with 1902 - on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre. Roles: in episodes (Julius Caesar W. Shakespeare, 1903), Young Blind (Blind M. Meterlinka, 1904), Elena (Children of the Sun M. Gorky, 1905),
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(native name Krasovskaya-Kalitinskaya)
Russian actress, director, teacher. Born in 1884 in the family of Moscow merchants-old believers. She studied at the First Moscow Mariinsky Gymnasium in the same class with O.V. Gzovskaya and E.N. Roshchina-Insarova.
One of the first pupils of the School of Art Theatre, with 1902 - on the stage of the Moscow Art Theatre. Roles: in episodes (Julius Caesar W. Shakespeare, 1903), Young Blind (Blind M. Meterlinka, 1904), Elena (Children of the Sun M. Gorky, 1905), Agnes (Brand H. Ibsena, 1906), Sophia (Woe from the wit of A. S. Griboyedov, 1906), Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov A. S. Pushkina, 1907), Rosa (Anatem L. Andreevsky, 1909), Eliza (Kazova, 19.Kazova, 19). “Beauty, a trembling nervous force, a keen sense of life promised a tragic actress in the spirit of Duze,” says theater expert I. Solovyova.
In 1919 she moved to Kiev, then to Rostov. She joined the Kachalov group, which toured outside Soviet Russia until 1922. In addition to her former roles (Grushenka, Ekaterina Ivanovna, Olga in the Three Sisters of A. P. Chekhov, Mamaeva in the comedy of A. N. Ostrovsky On every sage is quite simple), played Elena Andreevna (Uncle Vanya Chekhov).
In 1922, refusing to return to Moscow, together with N. O. Massalitinov, she headed the work of the so-called Prague group of the Moscow Art Theatre, played Ranevskaya (Chekhov’s Cherry Orchard), Queen (King of Dark Peace R. Tagore), Ellida (Daughters of the Ibsen Sea), Katerina (Ostrovsky’s Thunderstorm), Medea (Medea Euripides), Lady Macbeth (Shkespeare). She also worked as a director at the same time. In 1926 she performed as Medea at the Atelier Theatre in Paris. After the collapse of the Prague Group in 1927, Germanova worked in the Paris troupes of J. and L. Pitoev and G. Bati. She played Olga in Three Sisters, the Queen in Hamlet, Raskolnikov’s mother in Crime and Punishment by Dostoevsky, and others.
In 1929-1930, Germanova worked in the United States as a director and teacher at the Laboratory Theatre (New York), where she staged the Three Sisters.
She starred in films Anna Karenina (diary V. Gardin, 1914), Ekaterina Ivanovna (diary A. Uralsky, 1915).
Germanov died in Paris on April 9, 1940.