YAVORSKAYA, L. B. (Яворская Л.Б.)
Photo by E. Mrozovskaya, St. Petersburg, late 1890s
10.6 х 16.3 cm
As Marguerite Gautier in La Dame aux Camélias by Dumas. Attributed by Natalia G. Bandurova, St. Petersburg State Museum of Theater and Music Arts.
Lydia Borisovna YAVORSKAYA (b. von Gubbenet, m. countess Baryatinsky, 1871-1921) was a Russian actress with Korsch Theater in Moscow, Russia. After her marriage to count Baryatinsky, Lydia opened her own Novy Teather in St. Petersburg in 1901. In 1918, after her divorse, she moved to London, where she married sir Frederick John Pollock, 4th Baronet (1878 –1963), an English historian, journalist and translator.
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