Olga Bokshanskaya
Olga Bokshansky (born Nurenberg; 9th of December 1891, Dorpat/Tartu, Russian Empire – 12th of May 1948, Moscow, Russian SFSR, USSR) – a theatre figure. She was working at the Moscow Artistic Academic Theatre as a secretary of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
Her family (Nurenberg) lived in Riga at the beginning of the 20th century.
Her sister, Yelena married a famous writer Mikhail Bulgakov and was a prototype of Bulgakov's Margarita in "Master and Margarita".
Olga Bokshansky was a secretary in the Commission on granting Stalin prize. She left a great epistolaric legacy about the activities of Moscow Artistic Academic Theatre in 1920s-1940s.
Alexander Gurin
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