Maria Gavrilovna Savina (russian: link=no, Мария Гаври́ловна Са́вина, née Podrame′ntsova, 11 April 1854,

Kamenets-Podolsky Kamianets-Podilskyi ( uk, Ка́м'яне́ць-Поді́льський, russian: Каменец-Подольский, Kamenets-Podolskiy, pl, Kamieniec Podolski, ro, Camenița, yi, קאַמענעץ־פּאָדאָלסק / קאַמעניץ, ...

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– 21 September 1915,

Petrograd Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Imperial Russia) was a renowned Russian stage actress.

Biography

Born Maria Podramentsova into a family of stage actors, she debuted in

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in 1869, then joined the Mikhail Leontovsky troupe in

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. While there, she married the actor N. N. Slavich who used the stage name Savin, and has been known as Marya Savina ever since. In 1874 Savina, then the leading actress at the Saratov Theatre, moved to Saint Petersburg to join the

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. It was there that she became famous, mostly for her parts in

Alexander Ostrovsky Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky (russian: Алекса́ндр Никола́евич Остро́вский; ) was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 origina ...

's plays (including '' Without a Dowry'', '' Talents and Admirers'', ''

A Profitable Position ''A Profitable Position'' (''Dokhodnoye mesto'', Доходное место) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky. It was first published in No.1, January 1857 issue of '' Russkaya Beseda'' and came out as a separate edition later that year. Banned f ...

'', ''Hard-Earned Bread'', ''The Last Victim'', ''Vasilisa Melentyeva'', ''Wild Thing''), as well as in

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's ''

Revizor ''The Government Inspector'', also known as ''The Inspector General'' ( rus, links=no, Ревизор, Revizor, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist, Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the pla ...

'',

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's '' A Month in the Country'' and

Leo Tolstoy Count Lev Nikolayevich TolstoyTolstoy pronounced his first name as , which corresponds to the romanization ''Lyov''. () (; russian: link=no, Лев Николаевич Толстой,In Tolstoy's day, his name was written as in pre-refor ...

's ''

The Power of Darkness ''The Power of Darkness'' (russian: Власть тьмы, Vlast′ t′my) is a five- act drama by Leo Tolstoy. Written in 1886, the play's production was forbidden in Russia until 1902, mainly through the influence of Konstantin Pobedonostsev. I ...

'', among others. In 1883–1884 Marya Savina was the head of the All-Russian Theatres' Union. In 1897 she initiated Russia's First Congress of Theatres. In 1899 Savina was honoured with the

Meritorious Artist Merited Artist of the Russian Federation (russian: link=no, Заслуженный артист Российской Федерации, ''Zasluzhenny artist Rossiyskoy Federatsii'') is an honorary title in the Russian Federation. The title is ...

title and successfully performed in

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and

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.M. Г. Савина. Биографическая справка // Marya Savina's biography at the ''Fate of Artist. The Pre-Revolution Russian Theatre'' (Судьба таланта. Театр в дореволюционной России) by L.V. Mankova. Moscow, Pravda Publishers. 1990. P. 422 Her book of memoirs ''Goresti i skitaniya'' (Tribes and Tribulations) was published in Moscow in 1961.Yudina, Ekaterina
Marya Savina
at the Krugosvet Online Encyclopedia.

References

Russian stage actresses 1854 births 1915 deaths People from Kamianets-Podilskyi 19th-century actresses from the Russian Empire {{russia-actor-stub