Maria Yermolova
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Moscow
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— March 12, 1928, id.) was said to be the greatest actress in the history of the Maly Theatre
Maly theatre
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in Moscow
Moscow
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and the first person to be proclaimed the "People's Artist of the Republic
People's Artist of the USSR
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" (1921).
In the course of her 50-year career, Yermolova particularly excelled in the roles which allowed her to "emphasize her independence of spirit and her popular heroism in defiance of corrupt authority", as the Encyclopædia Britannica
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put it. Constantin Stanislavski proclaimed her the greatest actress he had ever observed, thus placing her above Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah Bernhardt was a French stage and early film actress, and has been referred to as "the most famous actress the world has ever known". Bernhardt made her fame on the stages of France in the 1870s, and was soon in demand in Europe and the Americas...
and Eleonora Duse
Eleonora Duse
-Life and career:Duse was born in Vigevano, Lombardy, and began acting as a child. Both her father and her grandfather were actors, and she joined the troupe at age four. Due to poverty, she initially worked continually, traveling from city to city with whichever troupe her family was currently...
.
From 1889 to 1928 she lived in a house on Tverskoy Boulevard
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in Moscow.
Following her death, her flat was designated a national monument, and one of the Moscow theatres still bears Yermolova's name. A minor planet
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3657 Ermolova
3657 Ermolova
3657 Ermolova is a main-belt asteroid discovered on September 26, 1978 by Zhuravleva, L. at Nauchnyj.- External links :*...
, discovered by Soviet
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astronomer Lyudmila Zhuravlyova
Lyudmila Zhuravlyova
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in 1978 is named after her. Ermolova crater on Venus is also named in her honor.