Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár

Ánna Pávlovna Bernárd
Born c. 1862
Died 1933
Orenberg
Pen name Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár
Occupation actress, playwright and writer
Nationality Russian British

Nina Pávlovna Annenkova-Bernár (Russian: Нина Павловна Анненкова-Бернар, born Ánna Pávlovna Bernárd, 1862? – 1933) was a Russian actress, playwright and writer.

Life

Annenkova-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

  1. 1 2 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
  2. 1 2 Annenkova-Bernár, Nina Pávlovna (1859/64–1933), Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia. . Encyclopedia.com. 23 Apr. 2017
  3. 1 2 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.
  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.


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