Background
Alexandra Ivanova Virina (née Koltanovskaya) was born in Tiraspol. Date of birth unknown.
Alexandra Ivanova Virina (née Koltanovskaya) was born in Tiraspol. Date of birth unknown.
Since 1882 she worked in Ukrainian troupes of M.L. Kropivnitsky, M.P. Staritsky, P.K. Saksagansky and others. In 1884 she was in the troup of the theatre named by M. Staritsky, toured in Voronezh, played predominantly the roles of the Ukrainian dramatists’ plays. Virina's best roles of different periods: Terpiliha ("Natalka Poltavka" by Ivan Kotlyarevsky), Tatyana ("Suyeta" by Ivan Karpenko-Kary), Nastya ("Yurko Dovbish" by Mykhailo Starytsky) and others.