Maria Yermolova
Deceased Person
1853 – 1928
Who was Maria Yermolova?
Maria Nikolayevna Yermolova was said to be the greatest actress in the history of the Maly Theatre in Moscow and the first person to be proclaimed the "People's Artist of the Republic".
In the course of her 50-year career, Yermolova particularly excelled in the roles which allowed her to "emphasize her independence of spirit and her popular heroism in defiance of corrupt authority", as the Encyclopædia Britannica put it. Constantin Stanislavski proclaimed her the greatest actress he had ever observed, thus placing her above Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse.
From 1889 to 1928 she lived in a house on Tverskoy Boulevard in Moscow.
Following her death, her flat was designated a national monument, and one of the Moscow theatres still bears Yermolova's name. A minor planet 3657 Ermolova, discovered by Soviet astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova in 1978 is named after her. Ermolova crater on Venus is also named in her honor.
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- Born
- Jul 15, 1853
Moscow - Also known as
- Ермолова, Мария Николаевна
- Nationality
- Soviet Union
- Russia
- Died
- Mar 12, 1928
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on July 23, 2013
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