Aleksandra Ivanovna Kolosova (nee Grigoryeva; April 14 (26), 1834 , Moscow , - 23.X (4.XI) 1867 , ibid.) - Russian actress. She graduated from the Moscow Theater School (teachers V.I. Zhivokini and S.P. Solovyov) in 1852 and was accepted into the drama and opera troupe of the Maly Theater , where she worked until the end of her life. In the same year she married the artist K.P. Kolosov .
| Alexandra Kolosova | |
|---|---|
| Birth name | Alexandra Ivanovna Kolosova |
| Date of Birth | April 26, 1834 |
| Place of Birth | Moscow |
| Date of death | November 4, 1867 (33 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
| Profession | actress |
Her talent was subject to roles in vaudeville, with which she began her artistic career, and serious tragic images, in which she began to appear a little later, and everyday characters. The theater encyclopedia notes: "The actress's talent was most fully revealed in the plays of Ostrovsky and Moliere." She became the first performer on the Moscow stages of many roles. “In 1858, she perfectly played a strong dramatic role in the play“ Mother and Daughter ”and from then on she played in the drama with ever-increasing success” (cited in: Great Biographical Encyclopedia ).
Roles: Louise (“Neighbor and Neighbor”, vaudeville, trans. From French. Batashev); Lisa ( "Poverty is not a vice" Ostrovsky , first performer, 1854); Ustinka ( "A festive dream - before dinner" by Ostrovsky, the first performer, 1857); Mary Antonovna ( The Examiner of Gogol , 1858); Princess Eboli ( Don Carlos , 1859) and Natasha (Priyumysh Kugushev, 1859); Raisa ( “What you follow, you will find, or the Marriage of Balzaminov” , 1863); Krasnova ( “Sin and misfortune for whom it does not live” , 1863); Alexandra Petrovna ( “Hard Days” , 1863); Polina ( "Profitable Place" , 1863); Nadia ( "Pupil" , 1863); Marya Vlasyevna ( Voevoda , 1865); Eugene ( “In a Lively Place” , 1865, Ostrovsky); Lisa ( “Woe from Wit” by Griboedov ); Lisette ("Marriage is the best doctor," 1865); Tuanetta ( “Imaginary Sick” by Moliere , 1866); Claudine (Georges Danden, 1866); Lisette ("School of husbands"; 1866); Katharina in the comedy The Taming of the Shrew (1865) and Mrs. Ford in Shakespeare 's Windsor Pranks (1866); Dorin ( "Tartuffe" by Moliere, 1867) and many others
About her aesthetic orientation on the Book.info website (inaccessible link) :
“Together with Sadovsky , Vasiliev ( Vasiliev 1st , Vasiliev 2nd ), Borozdin and Nikulina-Kositskaya Kolosova stood for the advantages of the household repertoire ( Ostrovsky and others) over melodramatic, foreign and narrow-saloon.”
Daughter Kolosova, Praskovya Konstantinovna , also became an actress, she played in the Maly Theater from 1887 to 1907.
Literature
- Bazhenov A.N., Soch. and translations, vol. 1, M., 1869;
- Rodislavsky V.I., Alexandra Ivanovna Kolosova, artist Mosk. Maly Theater (on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the death), EIT. Season 1902-1903, Prince 3 Appendices, St. Petersburg, p. 85-91;
- Stakhovich A.A., Shreds of Memories, IM., 1904. E. Phil.