Knipper-Chekhova, Olga Leonardovna

Knipper-Chekhova, Olga Leonardovna

▪ Russian actress
née Knipper
born 1869, Glazov, Russia
died March 22, 1959, Moscow, Russia, U.S.S.R.

      world-renowned Russian actress and the wife of playwright Anton Chekhov. (Chekhov, Anton)

      Knipper was rejected by the drama school of the Maly Theatre in Moscow but was noticed by V.I. Nemirovich-Danchenko and asked to join the acting school of the Moscow Philharmonic Society, which he headed. When Nemirovich-Danchenko and Konstantin Stanislavsky formed the Moscow Art Theatre, Knipper was among the original 39 members of the group; she made her debut as Irina in Aleksey Tolstoy's Tsar Fyodor Ioannovich, the theatre's first production (1898), and her career paralleled the growth of that organization. Knipper played Arkadina in the Moscow Art Theatre production of Chekhov's The Seagull (1898) that made the playwright, the play, and the theatre famous. She appeared in all the original Moscow Art Theatre stagings of Chekhov's plays and was especially successful as Masha in The Three Sisters (1901) and Madame Ranevskaya in The Cherry Orchard (1904), a role she played again when the theatre celebrated the 300th performance of the play in 1943.

      The professional association of Knipper and Chekhov blossomed into love, and they were married in 1901; although Chekhov died in 1904, their attachment was memorialized when Constance Garnett published an English translation of their love letters (1926).

      Knipper was with the Moscow Art Theatre on their tour throughout Europe in 1919–22 and performed with them in the United States in 1923–24. Her career with the Moscow Art Theatre included successful portrayals in the plays of Molière, Ivan Turgenev, and Maksim Gorky, as well as an appearance as Gertrude in Gordon Craig's production of William Shakespeare's Hamlet (1912). Knipper, a People's Artist of the Soviet Union, was awarded a Stalin Prize in 1943.

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