The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre
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The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre

An Actress, a Writer, and the Creative Life in the Silver Age of Chekhov

  1. 324 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre

An Actress, a Writer, and the Creative Life in the Silver Age of Chekhov

About this book

Combining history and biography, The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre focuses on the intimate relationship and professional collaboration between two creative women in Russia's Silver Age (1880s–1920). The actress Lidia Yavorskaya and the writer Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik overcame moral and social boundaries to assert themselves as successful artists. Their lives intersected with practically all the major theatrical entrepreneurs and artists of the period in Moscow and St. Petersburg, most notably Anton Chekhov.

The opening in the 1880s of private theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg resulted in an extraordinary flourishing of the dramatic arts, exposing theatergoers to the latest works by both Russian and Western European playwrights. In The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre, Yavorskaya and Shchepkina-Kupernik serve as guides to this remarkable artistic and literary world. Serge Gregory shows how their success in fashioning independent careers reflects the emergence of the theater as one of the few professional paths available for educated women in nineteenth-century Russia who wished to escape the constraints of traditional family life.

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Information

Publisher
Northern Illinois University Press
Year
2025
eBook ISBN
9781501780431
Subtopic
Teatro

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Notes on Transliteration, Dates, and Currency
  3. Introduction
  4. Prologue: Korsh’s Private Theater
  5. 1. “Ma Petite Sappho”
  6. 2. “I Spent Two Weeks in Some Sort of a Daze”
  7. 3. “In Paris Things Don’t Happen So Quickly”
  8. 4. “Don’t Forget the One Who Loves Only You”
  9. 5. The Dream Princess
  10. 6. Princess Baryatinskaya
  11. 7. Reconciliation
  12. 8. Sons of Israel
  13. 9. The New Theater
  14. Illustrations
  15. 10. Marriage
  16. 11. 1905 Revolution
  17. 12. The Wandering Star
  18. 13. English Debut
  19. 14. “I Don’t Need a ‘Happy Life,’ I Need the Stage”
  20. 15. “A Princess in Real Life, but in the Theater a Queen”
  21. 16. Anna Karenina
  22. 17. Divorce and Revolution
  23. 18. “Out of the Bolsheviks’ Clutches”
  24. Notes
  25. Bibliography
  26. Index