Marīi͡a Nikolaevna Ermolova : dvadt͡satipi͡atili͡etīe st͡senicheskoĭ di͡ei͡atelʹnosti.
1896
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Title
Marīi͡a Nikolaevna Ermolova : dvadt͡satipi͡atili͡etīe st͡senicheskoĭ di͡ei͡atelʹnosti.
Variant title
Maria Nikolaevna Ermolova : dvadtsatipiatilietie stsenicheskoi dieiatel'nosti
Created/published
Moskva : Grosman i Knebelʹ, 1896.
Description
183 pages : illustrations, portrait
Associated name
Ėfros, N. E. (Nikolaĭ Efimovich), 1867-1923, author.
Item Details
Call number
270321
Folger-specific note
From dealer's description: "First edition of a scarce 25th-anniversary celebration of the great Russian actress, by the theatre writer Nikolai Efros (1867–1923). ‘Maris Nikolaevna Ermolova [1853–1928] stands out among actors of the Maly Theatre … [as] one of the great tragediennes in theatre history. Like Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, she represented a whole era in late nineteenth-century Russian culture. Unfortunately, unlike a great writer, she did not leave any permanent trace of her art. Although critics of her time unanimously recognised her as a “tragic actress of genius”, “a symbol of our time”, they found it almost impossible to define and describe that genius …’ (Arkady Ostrovsky, ‘Imperial and private theatres, 1882–1905’, A History of Russian Theatre (CUP, 1999), pp. 225–6)." Ordered from Simon Beattie Antiquarian Books, D 9113, 2017-07-17, The Stage catalog July 2017, item 8.
Folger accession
270321