Margarita Georgiyevna Savitskaya (, born 30 October 1868, — died 27 March 1911) was a stage actress and in her later years a reader in drama, associated with the

Moscow Art Theatre The Moscow Art Theatre (or MAT; , ''Moskovskiy Hudojestvenny Akademicheskiy Teatr'' (МHАТ) was a theatre company in Moscow. It was founded in by the seminal Russian theatre practitioner Konstantin Stanislavski, together with the playwright ...

(MAT), a founding member of the original

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troupe.Маргарита Георгиевна Савицкая
Biography at the Moscow Art Theatre site by Inna Solovyova She was from the Russian Empire.

Career

Among the parts she was the first performer of in MAT were Antigona in the

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' tragedy, Magda in ''

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'' by

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, Tsaritsa Maria in ''

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'' by Alexey K. Tolstoy, Anna in ''

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'' by

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, The Spring in

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's '' Snow Maiden''. Her performance as Olga in Chekhov's '' Three Sisters'' has been described (by theatre historian Inna Solovyova) as "outstanding" and earned praise from Maria Ermolova who became her close friend in late 1900s. Savitskaya, who died in 1911, has been described as "the symbol of the original MAT's ethics". She was interred in the

Novodevichy Cemetery Novodevichy Cemetery () is a cemetery in Moscow. It lies next to the southern wall of the 16th-century Novodevichy Convent, which is the city's third most popular tourist site. History The cemetery was designed by Ivan Mashkov and inaugurated ...

, next to the Chekhov monument. Georgy Burdzhalov of The Moscow Art Theatre was her husband.

References

Actresses from the Russian Empire People from Nizhny Novgorod Governorate Moscow Art Theatre 1868 births 1911 deaths {{Russia-actor-stub