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unusual facts about Vera Komissarzhevskaya


Vera Komissarzhevskaya

Following Meyerhold's unsuccessful attempts to stage symbolist plays at Stanislavsky's Moscow Art Theatre, Komissarzhevskaya invited him to try his experiments at her new Komissarjevsky Theatre.


Theodore Komisarjevsky

Born in Venice, Komisarjevsky was born into theatre, as his father Fyodor Petrovich Komissarzhevsky was an opera singer who had befriended Tchaikovsky and his sister, Vera Komissarzhevskaya, was an eminent actress.


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