Anna Borisoglebskaya

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Anna Ivanivna Borisoglebskaya ( 13 July 1868 Sebezh – September 26, 1939, Kyiv) was a Ukrainian film and theatre actress. She was awarded People's Artist of the USSR (1936).^[1]

With her parents, she moved to Izyum, where she grew up. She received her education in Kharkiv at the school of the "Charitable Society". In 1886, she passed the exam for the title of public teacher at Kharkiv University, and she began teaching in the village of Novoselivka, Izium district.

She starting acting in amateur theatre groups. She played the roles of Odarka ("Matchmaking in Goncharovka" by Kvitka-Osnovyanenko) and Terpylykha ("Natalka Poltavka" by Kotlyarevsky) with great success. At the invitation of Mark Kropyvnytskyi in 1888, she entered the professional stage, linking her fate with the Ukrainian theater for the rest of her life. She worked in the troupe of Kropyvnytskyi until 1902, then for four years in the troupe of Panas Saksagansky and Karpenko-Kary, in 1906-1907 she toured with the troupes of Shatkivsky and Kolesnichenko. In 1907-1917 she worked in the first Ukrainian stationary theater in Kyiv under the direction of Mykola Sadovsky.

She created many parts in the theater: Ryndychka, Teklya, Hapka, Varvara ("By revision", "Until the sun rises, the dew will eat out the eyes", "Zaydygolova", "Chmyr" by Kropyvnytskyi), Sekleta, Vustya ("Chasing two hares", "Oh, don't go, Hrytsiu..." Starytsky), Hanna ("Untalented" by Karpenko-Kary), mother (in the plays "Vanity" by Karpenko-Kary and "The Forest Song" by Lesya Ukrainka), Stekha ("Nazar Stodolya" by Shevchenko), Shkandybykha ("Limerivna" by Panas Myrnyi), Mazailykha ("Myna Mazailo" by Mykola Kulish).^[2]

After the October Revolution, she was one of the organizers of the First State Ukrainian Theater named after Taras Shevchenko in Kyiv.

In 1920-1925 she was in Western Ukraine, where she performed in various theatrical troupes, in particular in the troupe of M. Orel-Stepniak. ^[3]

Filmography[edit]

• 1911 — Natalka-Poltavka (film-play, Terpylykha)
• 1912 — "Mr. Shtukarevych, or the Occasion That Did Not Exist"
• 1912 — "Zaporizhzhya Treasure" (Old Gypsy Woman)
• 1933 — "Koliivshchyna" (Ulyana, Semyon's mother)
• 1929 — Bolshoye gore malenkoy zhenshchiny (Galya's mother) ^[4]
• 1939 — Stozhari (film, delegate)
• 1939 — Shchors (weaver) ^[5]

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