The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre
An Actress, a Writer, and the Creative Life in the Silver Age of Chekhov
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2025
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8042-4 (ISBN)
Northern Illinois University Press (Verlag)
978-1-5017-8042-4 (ISBN)
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Combining history and biography, The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre focuses on the intimate relationship and professional collaboration between two creative women in Russia's Silver Age (1880s–1920). The actress Lidia Yavorskaya and the writer Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik overcame moral and social boundaries to assert themselves as successful artists. Their lives intersected with practically all the major theatrical entrepreneurs and artists of the period in Moscow and St. Petersburg, most notably Anton Chekhov.
The opening in the 1880s of private theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg resulted in an extraordinary flourishing of the dramatic arts, exposing theatergoers to the latest works by both Russian and Western European playwrights. In The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre, Yavorskaya and Shchepkina-Kupernik serve as guides to this remarkable artistic and literary world. Serge Gregory shows how their success in fashioning independent careers reflects the emergence of the theater as one of the few professional paths available for educated women in nineteenth-century Russia who wished to escape the constraints of traditional family life.
The opening in the 1880s of private theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg resulted in an extraordinary flourishing of the dramatic arts, exposing theatergoers to the latest works by both Russian and Western European playwrights. In The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre, Yavorskaya and Shchepkina-Kupernik serve as guides to this remarkable artistic and literary world. Serge Gregory shows how their success in fashioning independent careers reflects the emergence of the theater as one of the few professional paths available for educated women in nineteenth-century Russia who wished to escape the constraints of traditional family life.
Serge Gregory is the author of Antosha and Levitasha. He has contributed chapters for two books: Chekhov's Letters and Chekhov in Context.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 15.4.2025 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies |
| Zusatzinfo | 20 Halftones, black and white |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| ISBN-10 | 1-5017-8042-5 / 1501780425 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-5017-8042-4 / 9781501780424 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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