Background
KORCHAGINA-ALEKSANDROVSKAYA, Yekaterina was born on December 23, 1874 in Kostroma.
KORCHAGINA-ALEKSANDROVSKAYA, Yekaterina was born on December 23, 1874 in Kostroma.
From early childhood acted on the stage. 1887 under the stage name of Ol’gin began independant career as actress (signed her first contract in Permanent’). Until 1890 worked in various Russian cities (Arkhangcl’sk, Mogilyov, Yelets, Tula, Tambov, etc).
1890-1895 played in Ivanovo-Voznesensk. 1896-1903 in Pskov; married provincial actor V. V. Aleksandrovskiy. From 1895 performed under the name of KorchaginaAleksandrovskaya.
1915 made debut at Aleksandrinskiy Theater (now Leningrad Pushkin Theater) and was given permanent engagement. Performed many of her best roles there. 1937 elected deputy, Union of the Soviet Socialist Republics Supreme Soviet.
Roles: about 400 on the provincial stage. Lipochka in Svoi lyudi - soclityomsya (Birds of a Feather Flock Together). Varvara in Groza (The Storm).
March’ya Antonovna in Revizor (The Government Inspector). Liza in Core ot uma (Woe From Wit). Yelena in Meshchane (The Philistines).
Nastya in Na dne (The Lower Depths). Played in vaudeville and melodramas. 1904-1907 worked at Komissarzhevskaya Theater in Saint St. Petersburg.
Domna Panlelcvna in Talanty ipoklonniki (Talents and Admirers) (1904). Kaurova in Turgenev’s Zavtrak u predvoditelya (Lunch with the Marshal) (1905). Later played exclusively elderly women.
At Krasov Theater in Saint St. Petersburg played Ulita in Les (The Forest) (1907) and Poshlyopkina in Revizor (The Government Inspector) (1907) which later became her best roles. 1908-1915 engagement at Theater of the Literature and Arts Social (Saint St. Petersburg). Specialized in ’’comic old women”, Galchikha in Bez viny vinovaty (Guilty Without Guilt) (1908).
Matryona in Hast' t’my (The Powers of Darkness) (1908). Emma Shtark in Lunacharskiy’s Kantsler i slesar’ (The Chancellor and the Locksmith) (1923). Ivan Kalyayev’s mother in Kalugin and Berenshlam’s Ivan Kalyayev (1926).
Pugachyov’s mother in Trenyov’sPugachyovshchina (The Pugachyov Revolt) (1926). The nurse Khristina Arkhipovna in Platon Krechet (1935). Kozlikha in Seyfullina and Pravdukhin’s Virineya (1926).
Dobzhina in Afinogenov’s Chudak (The Crank) (1930). Karaulova in Shkvarkin's Chuzhoy rebyonok (Another’s Child) (1934). Demid’yevna in Nashestviye (Invasion) (1943).
From 1943 performed in films. Ulita in Iudushka Golovlyov, Feklyusha in Groza (The Storm), et cetera