Yelena Polevitskaya

Polevitskaya was basically a stage actress, a very famous and talented stage star. (She is even mentioned in the memoirs of the Russian writer Konstantin Paustovsky, who saw her on the stage when he was a lad.) Polevitskaya was educated and trained for a stage acting career in St. Petersburg (1900-08), and apprenticed in the Kommisarzhevsky ...