Background
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Smirnova was born in 1873 in Moscow City, Russian Federation.
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna Smirnova was born in 1873 in Moscow City, Russian Federation.
Nadezhda Aleksandrovna graduated from the drama courses of Moscow Theater School at the Maly Theater (1896).
In 1896-1906 Nadezhda Aleksandrovna performed in the provinces (Ryazan, Vologda, Penza, Kiev, Samara and other cities). She worked in the city of Voronezh (1902-1903); in 1907 she played in the performances "At the Bottom", "The Philistines" by Maxim Gorky. In 1906-1908, the artist of the Russian Drama Korsh Theater, in 1908-1927 of the Maly Theater.
Among the roles of different periods: Katerina, Larisa, Gurmyzhskaya ("Thunderstorm", "Without a Dowry", "Forest") by Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Lady Macbeth ("Macbeth" by William Shakespeare), Glafira ("Slaves" by Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich), Nastasya Filippovna ("Idiot" by Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky) and others. Since 1918, a teacher at the studio school at the Maly Theater. In 1928 she left the stage. The author of the book "Memoirs" (Moscow, 1947).