Desc: Ya - aktrisa: Directed by Viktor Sokolov. With Natalya Sayko, Oleg Vavilov, Afanasi Kochetkov, Pyotr Merkurev. Depicts the life of Vera Fyodorovna Komissarzhevskaya (1864-1910) who was one of the most celebrated actresses and theatre managers of the late Russian Empire. She made her professional debut in 1893, after having acted as an amateur at Constantin Stanislavsky's Society of Art and Literature. In 1904, Komissarzhevskaya founded her own theatre in Saint Petersburg, where she appeared in productions of Chekhov's Ivanov and Uncle Vanya, -and as Desdemona in William Shakespeare's Othello, Ophelia in Hamlet, and Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House.