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Latest comment: 8 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I've created this list to support my recent Konstantin Stanislavski article. I've worked through until The Cherry Orchard with full citations. The ones after that need more fleshing-out. Framework for the list is taken from the appendix to Jean Benedetti's Stanislavski: His Life and Work. Since I haven't yet finished adding all relevant/appropriate/useful details, I haven't bundled or grouped together citations that at the moment use the same source/page number. Once more details are added, it's unlikely they'll group together, so I'm going to leave them separated for the time being, to facilitate further expansion. I will at some point try to export the details of individual productions to the Production History sections of the articles for each play, where they exist. Transliteration from the Russian isn't very consistent (here or on Wikipedia in general). I've preferred Benedetti for the most part, or whatever the source gives if that's not available. In much of the critical literature, as with the original productions, actor's first names are omitted. I've tracked them down, often making use of Gottlieb's index. • DP • ^{huh?} 00:07, 30 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

Actors and plays that lack an article on Wikipedia

Latest comment: 7 years ago1 comment1 person in discussion

I'm going to try to keep a list here of those actors and plays in the list that don't yet have an article, rather than red-link them in the article itself.

Actors

Alexander Adashev
Nikolai Aleksandrov
Alexander Artem
Anna Sergeevna Aleeva-Shteker^[1] (**)
Nikolai Baranov (actor) (**)
Georgy Burdzhalov
~~Yevsei Pavlovich Darski~~ (*) Mikhail Darski
Mikhail Gromov (actor) (**)
Sofia Khaliutina
Aleksei Kharlamov (**)
Nikolai Khmelev
Maria Lilina
Vasily Luzhsky
Nikolai Massalitinov
Ekaterina Munt
Elena Muratova (actress)
Khristofor Petrossyan (***)
Nikolai Podgorny (actor)
Yevgeniya Raevskaya
Mikhailo Rakitin (***)
Maria Roksanova
Maria Samarova
Margarita Savitskaya
Alexander Shakhalov^[2] (**)
Seraphin Soudbinine
Boris Sushkevich
Sergey Tarasov^[3] (**)
Alexander Zagarov

Short tributes, or otherwise

(**) ANNA ALEYEVA-SHTEKER(1866—1936) [1] 4 parts in 4 years, nothing groundbreaking. Departed for 'domestic reasons'. Yes, Stanislavski's sister. But notable otherwise? Hardly.
(**) NIKOLAI BARANOV [2]: 17 roles in 1899-1903, quick rise to fame, rapid decline, alcoholism etc. Certainly notable, but with birth/death dates unknown, I skipped him.
(*) EVSEI PAVLOVICH DARSKI (ru:Дарский, Евсей Павлович, 1904-1949) was a stand-up comedian and entertainer, performer of chastushka, who had nothing to do with MAT (and hadn't yet been born in 1898). The actor in question was Mikhail Darski, and it was his performance as Shylock that outraged the Jewish audience.
(**) MIKHAIL GROMOV (1871-1918) [3], 24 parts in 1899-1906, became famous in the Gorky plays and was (like Baranov) a 'Gorky character' type through and through. Chatacterised as 'a half-talent' (Stanislavski), as well as 'uncultured, undisciplined' (Solovyova). Marginally notable.
(**) ALEXEI KHARLAMOV (1876—1934). The MAT actor in 1898-1903. Certainly notable, there's an article on him in Th. Enc. Was cast in 4 films in 1926-1933. Still, the info is scant.
(***) Khristofor Petrossyan. Nothing whatsoever... A renowned Armenian orthopedist surgeon of the same name, 1889-1961? Would have been a 7-year old, still in Karabakh: hardly qualified to play Iago in 1896.
(***) Mikhailo Rakitin. Found nothing, not even a mention of him in the main article. An error, perhaps? Mikhail Rakitin was a Turgenev character. One thing's for certain: there's never been a Russian actor of any note named Mikhailo Rakitin. Or, indeed, Khristofor Petrossyan.
(**) ALEXANDER SHAKHALOV (1880 — 1935). Features here. But that seems to be all.
(**) SERGEY TARASOV, found nothing on him. -- Evermore2 (talk) 17:29, 9 July 2017 (UTC)Reply

Plays

Russian plays

The Life of Man by Leonid Andreyev
Molière (also known as The Cabal of Hypocrites) by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Days of the Turbins by Mikhail Bulgakov
The Governor by Victor Diachenko
The Green Ring by Zinaida Gippius
The Philistines by Maxim Gorky
The Embezzlers by Valentin Kataev
Nicholas I and the Decembrists by Aleksandr Kugel
Untilovsk by Leonid Leonov
In Dreams by Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
Light Without Heat by Alexander Ostrovsky
Men Above the Law by Aleksey Pisemsky

Non-Russian plays

Lonely People by Gerhart Hauptmann (German)
Uriel Acosta by Karl Gutzkow (German)
The Drama of Life by Knut Hamsun (Norwegian)
The Gérard Sisters by Adolphe d'Ennery and Eugène Cormon (French)
Merchants of Glory by Marcel Pagnol and Paul Nivoix (French)

Playwrights and others

Victor Diachenko - playwright
Aleksandr Kugel - playwright
Vakhtang Mchedelov - director^[4]
Nikolai Efros - critic
Ilya Satz - composer
Nikolai Rakhmanov - composer (also: Rakhmanov-Sokolov, 1892-1964)

^ Stage name of Konstantin Stanislavski's sister, Anna Sergeevna Alekseev-Shteker. As Stanislavski's sibling, her maidenname was Alekseev. Shteker is her married name. There is an article on her, including a photograph, on the Russian Wikipedia--ru:Алеева-Штекер, Анна Сергеевна
^ In 1920 production of Cain; the member of the troupe in 1916-1924.
^ In 1898 production of The Mistress of the Inn; left the troupe in 1899. There is a red link for Sergei Tarasov (film director). But it most certainly has to do with the 1933-born one.
^ "Vakhtang L. Mchedelov: initiated the project to stage The Green Ring by Zinaida Gippius with the group that soon became the Second Studio of the MAT. He was a teacher at the School of Dramatic Art and proposed the project when it was announced the school would close, with the aim of convincing Stanislavski to allow the group to form a second studio. He also worked as an assistant director to VN-D at the MAT; Gauss (1999, 62).

Stanislavski's sister

Latest comment: 8 years ago2 comments2 people in discussion

I'm adding Oxcross's note from my talk page here, since this might be the place from which an article on her will be created eventually, and make the adjustments to the article and the list given above: • DP • ^{huh?} 17:41, 30 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

I’ve tried to work this out (and conferred with family members) and found what might be an explanation: If you go to a hardware store in Russia and ask for a Штекер they will sell you a plug, the kind you plug into the wall. But people named Штекер seem to go by: Shteker. (Which I confirmed by a bit of “googling”.) It may be foolish to translate Shteker into “plug”. (as I did). (I don’t swear by my English spellings of the names.) From the photo caption (I sent you a link) this is what I get:

She was born: Anna Sergeevna Alekseeva (Анна Сергеевна Алексеева). She is known as Anna S. Aleeva, her real name is Alekseev - Shteker. With Shteker added in marriage. (Her real name: Алексеева-Штекер). She performed with the stage name Aleeva-Shteker (Алеева-Штекер)

Also, by the way, she appeared at the Moscow Art Theatre as Maria Godunov in "Death of Ivan the Terrible" by Tolstoy, as Hanna in "Gannele" by Hauptmann, as Elena the Fair in "The Snow Maiden" by Alexander Ostrovsky. Oxcross (talk) 17:23, 30 August 2016 (UTC)Reply

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[1] Stage name of Konstantin Stanislavski's sister, Anna Sergeevna Alekseev-Shteker. As Stanislavski's sibling, her maidenname was Alekseev. Shteker is her married name. There is an article on her, including a photograph, on the Russian Wikipedia--ru:Алеева-Штекер, Анна Сергеевна

[2] In 1920 production of Cain; the member of the troupe in 1916-1924.

[3] In 1898 production of The Mistress of the Inn; left the troupe in 1899. There is a red link for Sergei Tarasov (film director). But it most certainly has to do with the 1933-born one.

[4] "Vakhtang L. Mchedelov: initiated the project to stage The Green Ring by Zinaida Gippius with the group that soon became the Second Studio of the MAT. He was a teacher at the School of Dramatic Art and proposed the project when it was announced the school would close, with the aim of convincing Stanislavski to allow the group to form a second studio. He also worked as an assistant director to VN-D at the MAT; Gauss (1999, 62).

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