Ol'ga Leonardovna Knipper-Chekhova

Japanese: クニッペル･チェーホワ（英語表記）Ol’ga Leonardovna Knipper‐Chekhova

1868‐1959
A Soviet actress. After graduating from the Philharmonic School of Music and Drama, she participated in the founding of the Moscow Art Theatre under her teacher Nemirovich-Danchenko. After playing the lead role in The Seagull, she married the writer Chekhov. In addition to Chekhov's plays, which she performed with unchanging love throughout her life, she expressed the joys, sorrows, passion, loneliness and melancholy of modern women with deep truth and poetic emotion in plays by Gorky, Ibsen and others. [Nozaki Takao]

Source: Heibonsha World Encyclopedia, 2nd Edition Information

Japanese:

1868‐1959
ソ連邦の女優。フィルハーモニー音楽演劇学校卒業とともに，師ネミロビチ･ダンチェンコに従ってモスクワ芸術座の創立に参加。《かもめ》の主役を演じたことが機縁となり，作家チェーホフと結婚。終生変わらぬ愛情をもって演じ続けたチェーホフ劇をはじめ，ゴーリキー，イプセンなどの戯曲において，近代女性の哀歓，情熱，寂寥，憂愁を深い真実と詩情のなかに表現した。【野崎韶夫】

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