Komissarzhevskaya

The name of Vera Fedorovna Komissarzhevskaya (1864-1910) personifies the era in the history of the domestic theater. Contemporaries admired her and idolized her, awarding the epithets of almost Pushkin"s scale. What is the phenomenon of universal love and general admiration for this fragile woman? Why did she become a symbol uniting several generations? How to explain that the actress, who achieved popular recognition and incredible glory, threw the theater for the sake of creating at the peak of her career - no more or less - "school of a new person"? And only the tragic death in the prime of life did not allow her to begin to fulfill this previously unprecedented task ...
About the life of "Seagulls of the Russian Scene" - life full of suffering and love, loud triumphs and equally high -profile failures, cool turns and eternal doubts, says the constant author of the Housing series, a historian of literature, professor of Moscow University Anna Sergeyeva- Klyatis, who is a combination of a distant relative of the great Russian actress