Monday, 5 March 2012

A Provincial Lady (Провинциалка, a one-act play, 1851), written by Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), and produced at the Moscow Art Theatre on 5 March 1912.

   Scenes from A Provincial Lady (Провинциалка, a one-act play, 1851), written by the Russian playwright Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev (1818-1883), and produced at the world-famous Moscow Art Theatre as part of a triple bill of works by Turgenev. Constantin Stanislavski directed and played Count Liubin. It opened on 5 March 1912.

   A Provincial Lady (Russian: Провинциалка, romanized: Provintsialka) is a one-act play by Ivan Turgenev. Written in 1850, it was first produced in January 1851 at a benefit performance for the seminal 19th-century Russian actor Mikhail Shchepkin at the Maly Theatre in Moscow.











Stanislavski and his wife Lilina in the Moscow Art Theatre production in 1912.

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