Mariia Starytska

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Mariia Mykhailivna Starytska (Ukrainian: Марія Михайлівна Старицька; 19 [O.S. 31] May 1865 – 20 December 1930) was a Ukrainian and Soviet actress and stage director.

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Early life and education Mariia Mykhailivna Starytska was born on 19 [O.S. 31] May 1865 in the selo of Lebekhivka, Poltava Governorate (present-day Poltava Oblast, Ukraine) to Mykhailo Starytsky and Sofiia Starytska. Starytska was the eldest daughter of Mykhailo Starytsky and the sister of Liudmyla Starytska-Cherniakhivska and Oksana Steshenko. Starytska went to the first kindergarten in Kyiv, which was administered by Maria Lindfors and Sofia Lindfors. She and her sister Liudmyla studied Ukrainian language, literature, and history at home from their parents and their family, even though they attended a private gymnasium that followed the Russian imperial curriculum. Marko Kropyvnytskyi's performances deeply influenced Starytska and sparked her love for Ukrainian theatre. Though she declined his marriage proposal—perhaps due to their age gap or her educational goals—she always held him in high esteem. Starytska completed her education at the first private women's gymnasium in Kyiv in 1882. In 1883, while her father supported Kropyvnytskyi's theatre troupe, she chose to pursue further studies. Though previously believed to have graduated from the Bestuzhev Courses in Saint Petersburg, archival records confirm she attended the Kyiv Women's Higher Courses from 1884 to 1886, after studying natural sciences at the Bestuzhev Courses from 1883 to 1884.…Citește mai mult

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Career Starytska performed with her father's troupe from 1886 to 1890, and under the stage name r, appeared at the theatre on Vasilyevsky Island, the Okhta People's House, and the workers' theatre near the Narva Gate in Saint Petersburg between 1894 and 1896. She later joined her father's troupe in 1897 and again in 1908. She was known for her character roles, including Anna Petrivna, Lymarykha, the Mother, and Hanna in It Was Not Meant to Be, Chasing Two Hares, Marusia Bohuslavka, Bohdan Khmelnytsky, and The Last Night by Starytskyi, as well as Kabanikha in The Storm by Alexander Ostrovsky, among others. Starytska began her teaching career as a mentor and stage director in amateur workers' theatre circles across Kyiv, including areas such as Kurenivka, Shuliavka, Demiivka, Solomianka, and Darnytsia, as well as at the Lukianivka, Troitske, and Bulvarno-Kudriavskyi people's houses. From 1904, she taught acting at the music and drama schools of M. Lisnevych-Nosova and Mykola Lysenko, where she led the drama department and, following Lysenko's death in 1912, assumed leadership of the school. Dedicated to nurturing young theatrical talent as much as providing entertainment, Starytska actively encouraged promising students she discovered in Kyiv's amateur theatre scene. She not…Citește mai mult

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Death Starytska invited the family of musicologist Mykola Grinchenko to move into her family's apartment in 1930 in an attempt to prevent it from being seized amid political repression after her sister Lyudmyla and brother-in-law were arrested in connection with the alleged "Union for the Liberation of Ukraine" case. She lived in apartment No. 18 on the top floor of the building at the intersection of Oles Honchar Street and Yaroslaviv Val in Kyiv at the time, and she worked at the Mykola Lysenko Music and Drama Institute. Her health was probably impacted by the stress of these events, and she died on 20 December 1930. On the central alley of Baikove Cemetery, across from her parents and close to Lysenko and Steshenko, she was buried.

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Legacy The Mykhailo Starytskyi Memorial Museum (Saksahanskoho St. 97, Kyiv) opened its doors in 2002.

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Awards Merited Artist of the Ukrainian SSR (1926)