Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár (Russian: Нина Павловна Анненкова-Бернар, born Ánna Pávlovna Bernárd, 1862? – 1933) was a Russian actress, playwright and writer.
Ánna Pávlovna Bernárd | |
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| Born | c. 1862 |
| Died | 1933 Orenberg |
| Pen name | Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár |
| Occupation | actress, playwright and writer |
| Nationality | Russian British |
Life
editAnnenkova-Bernár was born in between 1859 and 1865. She studied in a Saint Petersburg's Mariinskaya gymnasium,[1] later trained as an actress and obtained her first acting work in the provinces in 1880.[2] Eventually she took a place at a Moscow Goreva's theatre where her skills were appreciated.[3]
She took to writing whilst she was living with Modest Pisarev. He was an actor involved with running Anna Brenko's theatre in 1880.[4] Her lover's influence was useful in obtaining contacts in the publishing world. It was alleged that he was an unattributed co-author because he was involved in strong editing of her work.[2]
In 1903 she appeared in her own play about Joan of Arc, Doch Naroda (People's Daughter, published the same year), staged by the St Petersburg's Maly Theatre.[1]
This was the most successful of her plays. In 1917 she retired to Orenberg where she continued to write but she mainly ran a theatre for young actors.[3]
She died in 1933 in Orenburg.
References
edit- ^ a b E.B.Belodubovsky. Нина Павловна Анненкова-Бернар. Russian Writers Dictionary // Е. Б. Белодубровский. Русские писатели. 1800--1917. Биографический словарь. Том 1. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1989
- ^ a b Annenkova-Bernár, Nina Pávlovna (1859/64–1933), Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. . Encyclopedia.com. 23 Apr. 2017
- ^ a b Marina Ledkovskai͡a-Astman; Charlotte Rosenthal; Mary Fleming Zirin (1994). Dictionary of Russian Women Writers. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 27–29. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4.
- ^ Catherine Schuler (17 June 2013). Women in Russian Theatre: The Actress in the Silver Age. Routledge. pp. 115–122. ISBN 978-1-136-15597-0.