Background
DONAURI, Yelena was born on March 15, 1890.
DONAURI, Yelena was born on March 15, 1890.
Actors’ courses in Tiflis and Saint St. Petersburg.
1908 began stage work with L. B. Yavorskaya’s road show. 1913-1914 at Saint St. Petersburg Kommissarzhcvskaya Theater, then in Taganrog, et cetera 1918-1920 at Tiflis Russian Theater.
From 1920 in Geo theaters. 1920-1926 at Rustaveli Theater. From 1928 at Mardzhanishvili Theater.
Played heroic and dramatic, later character roles. Also taught; Roles: Khasinta in Ovechiy istochnik (The Sheep’s Well) (1922). Katerina in Pogodin’s Poema o topore (Poem of the Axe) (1931).
Ketevana in Dadiani’s Guriya Ninoshvili (1934). Otarov's widow in Chavchavadze’s Slomannyy most (Broken Bridge) (1935). Tebro in Mrevlishvili’s Ochag Kharateli (Kharateli’s Hearth) (1949), et cetera