Background
Glikeriya Nikolaevna Fedotova (nee Pozdnyakova) was born on October 5, 1846, in Orel, Russian Federation.
1868
Glikeriya Nikolaevna
1956
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Portrait of the actress Glikeriya Nikolaevna
Glikeriya Nikolaevna Fedotova (nee Pozdnyakova) was born on October 5, 1846, in Orel, Russian Federation.
Of the 29 parts, Glikeriya Nikolaevna had in Alexander Ostrovsky's plays, at least two (Snegurochka, Vasilissa Melentyevna) have been written specifically for her by the author. The part of Katerina in The Storm was hers for 35 years, from 1863 onwards. In the 1880s Stanislavski invited Glikeriya Nikolaevna to teach drama at the Art and Literature Society; the most famous of her students there was Alexandra Yablochkina.
Glikeriya Nikolaevna was married to actor and theater director Aleksandr Fedotov.