Olga Partan


 


Department of World Languages, Literatures, and Cultures

Program Coordinator, Russian Studies
Associate Professor of Russian Studies
Ph.D. Brown University

 

Fields: Russian Language, Literature, and Culture

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Email: opartan@holycross.edu
Office Phone: 508-793-3832
Office: Stein 457
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English Publication


  

The iconic masks of the Italian commedia dell鈥檃rte鈥擧arlequin, Pierrot, Colombina, Pulcinella, and others鈥攈ave been vagabonding the roads of Russian cultural history for more than three centuries. This book explores how these masks, and the artistic principles of the commedia dell鈥檃rte that they embody, have profoundly affected the Russian artistic imagination, providing a source of inspiration for leading Russian artists as diverse as nineteenth-century writer Nikolai Gogol, modernist theater director Evgenii Vakhtangov, Vladimir Nabokov, and the empress of Russian popular culture Alla Pugacheva. The author presents a new perspective on this topic, showing how the commedia dell鈥檃rte has nourished a rich cultural tradition in Russia.

Russian Publication

孝褘 锌褉邪胁邪, 肖懈谢褍屑械薪邪! 袙邪褏褌邪薪谐芯胁褑褘 蟹邪 泻褍谢懈褋邪屑懈 褌械邪褌褉邪.

袣薪懈谐邪 袨谢褜谐懈 小懈屑芯薪芯胁芯泄-袩邪褉褌邪薪 鈥 斜械蟹褍褋谢芯胁薪芯械 褋芯斜褘褌懈械 胁 卸邪薪褉械 屑械屑褍邪褉薪芯泄 锌褉芯蟹褘. 袙薪褍褔泻邪 胁褘写邪褞褖械谐芯褋褟 邪泻褌械褉邪 懈 褉械卸懈褋褋械褉邪 袪褍斜械薪邪 袧懈泻芯谢邪械胁懈褔邪 小懈屑芯薪芯胁邪 (1899-1968), 写芯褔褜 懈蟹胁械褋褌薪芯谐芯 褉械卸懈褋褋械褉邪 袝胁谐械薪懈褟 袪褍斜械薪芯胁懈褔邪 小懈屑芯薪芯胁邪 (1925- 1994) 懈 邪泻褌褉懈褋褘 袙邪谢械褉懈懈 袧懈泻芯谢邪械胁薪褘 袪邪蟹懈薪泻芯胁芯泄 (1937鈥1980), 芯薪邪 褋褍屑械谢邪 褟褉泻芯, 褝屑芯褑懈芯薪邪谢褜薪芯, 褋芯 屑薪芯卸械褋褌胁芯屑 褍写懈胁懈褌械谢褜薪褘褏 写械褌邪谢械泄 锌芯泻邪蟹邪褌褜 懈褋锌芯谢薪械薪薪褍褞 写褉邪屑邪褌懈蟹屑邪 懈褋褌芯褉懈褞 胁蟹邪懈屑芯芯褌薪芯褕械薪懈泄 褉芯写懈褌械谢械泄, 褋褌褉邪褋褌懈, 泻懈锌械胁褕懈械 薪邪 褋褑械薪械 懈 蟹邪 褋褑械薪芯泄 褌械邪褌褉邪

You Were Right, Filumena! Vakhtangovites Behind the Theater鈥檚 Curtains
 
鈥淭he book by Olga Simonova-Partan is unquestionably an event in the memoir genre. The
granddaughter of distinguished actor and director Ruben Simonov (1899-1968), the daughter of
renowned director Evgeniy Simonov (1925- 1994) and actress Valeria Razinkova (1937-1980),
she vividly, emotionally, and with many astonishing details brings to life the dramatic story of
the relationship between her parents and the passions that were boiling onstage and behind the
scenes of the theater.

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