Barbara Aleksi-Meskhishvili (1 February 1898,

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– 25 December 1972, Tbilisi) was a Georgian stage actress. After graduating she worked at the

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between 1916 and 1941, and in

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and other theaters between 1942 and 1944, performing comedy plays as adolescent boys. Her main roles were as

Mirandolina ''The Mistress of the Inn'' ( ), also translated as ''The Innkeeper Woman'' or ''Mirandolina'' (after the play's main character), is a 1753 three-act comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni centred around a coquette. The play has been re ...

in the eponymous comic opera by

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, based upon

Carlo Goldoni Carlo Osvaldo Goldoni (, also , ; 25 February 1707 – 6 February 1793) was an Italian playwright and librettist from the Republic of Venice. His works include some of Italy's most famous and best-loved plays. Audiences have admired the plays ...

's comedy ''

The Mistress of the Inn ''The Mistress of the Inn'' ( ), also translated as ''The Innkeeper Woman'' or ''Mirandolina'' (after the play's main character), is a 1753 three-act comedy by the Italian playwright Carlo Goldoni centred around a coquette. The play has been re ...

,'' as Doña Juana in

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's '' Don Gil of the Green Breeches'', and as Tugina in

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's ''The Last Victim''. She received the title of Honored Artist of Georgia in 1943.

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