The Actress

23 hrs. 20 min.

Romance & Prose

Language Russian

Author Maria Krestovskaya

Narrator Valentina Savenko

Description

In 1862, a daughter was born to the young Polish nobleman writer Wsevolod Krestovsky and actress V. Grineva—Maria. Unfortunately, her parents soon divorced, and the girl was raised by her grandmother. She graduated from a boarding institute for noble girls, deciding to follow both her mother’s footsteps and her father’s.

Maria dreamed of playing on a grand stage, but for now she was given only roles in small private theaters. She wrote brief essays, stories, and novellas that were gladly published in magazines. Like diving headfirst into a pool, she threw herself into a relationship with one creative person. She had a child with him—but it was not the hero of her novel. And soon she was left alone.

True love was waiting around the corner when Maria met Yevgeny Kartavtsev.