Michurin-Samoilova Vera

She made her debut at the Alexandrinsky Theater in 1841, Mr.. Played in a serious comedy and drama, delighting the audience as the sincerity and the ability to elaborate the role of. One of the most enthusiastic admirers of her was Apollon Grigoriev, according to whom in her game dominated by the personal element. A graceful and delicate, it is attracted by "the poetry of weakness" and her face was approaching to full tenderness heroines of Shakespeare. With exceptional success played Michurina-Samoilova, and in plays by Turgenev, especially in the "Provincial". Brilliant career was interrupted by the artist in 1853, as she when she married an officer had to leave the scene. Recent years Michurina-Samoilova engaged in teaching performing arts. Died in 1880. - Wed. VA. Krylov Sisters Samoilovs "(" Historical Journal ", 1898, # 1 and 2); In. Shenrok "Family Samoilov" ( "Russian Antiquities", 1903, September), "Yearbook of the Imperial Theaters, 1903 - 4," A Century of Family Samoilovs on the Russian stage.