Alexandra Alexandrova

Alexandra Alexandrova  (nee Alexandra Ilyina; 1st of May 1905, Riga, Russian Empire – 8th of January 1982, Riga, Latvian SSR) –  an actress of Riga Russian Drama Theatre.

Alexandra Alexandrova was born in Riga. She began her theatrical activities in the 1920s on the stage of Riga Russian Drama Theatre and Daugavpils Theatre. She worked till the end of the 1920s at Daugavpils Theatre and starting from 1930s till 1968 in Riga Russian Drama Theatre.

During the Nazi occupation she evacuated and worked at the State Artistic Ensemble, was performing at the front lines. She played different roles: teenagers, young women in the plays of famous Latvian playwright Rudolfs Blaumanis.

Alexandra Alexandrova performed dramatic women roles and added lyrical touch to them, especially in the plays of famous Russian playwrights such as Arbuzov (“Tanya”), Afinogenov (Mashenka). Alexandra Alexandrova was successfully performing in classic works by I. Turgenev, L. Tolstoy, M. Gorky. She managed to win the acclaim of the audience by playing comic characters in N. Gogol's “Auditor”, B. Show’s  “Pigmalion” during the mature period of her theatrical activities.

Alexandra Alexandrova was awarded the title of People's Actress of Latvian SSR in 1945.

Alexandra Alexandrova was supervising the work of amateur theatres at different industrial enterprises of Latvia.

She was a great, unparalleled, dedicated theatre actress.

Photo: Alexandra Alexandrova as Tanya in the play of the same name by A. Arbuzov. 1940.

Source of information:

В. Шаховской «Праздник художницы» из альманаха «Литература и жизнь», 1965 год.