Andreeva, Maria Feodorovna (real name Yurkovska) (1868 – 08/12/1953), Russian actress and social activist. A member of the Communist Party since 1904.
Play in society of art and literature (from 1894), then in Moscow Arts Theatre (1898-1905).
It is with great elegance, subtlety and lyricism watercolor sang the role in the plays of Hauptmann (Rautendeleyn – sunken bell, Kothe – "Lonely"), Chekhov (Irina – "Three Sisters", Anya – "Cherry Orchard"), etc.
Central to her work occupied the roles played in the plays of Gorky: Natasha, Lisa ("Bottom", "Children Sun", MAT) daughter Maria ("Summer Folk", m-p KN Nezlobin, Riga).
Active revolutionary (party name phenomenon), Andreev in 1905 was the publisher of the Bolshevik newspaper "New Life". For the party activities was hounded police. By becoming law wife Gorky and his closest friend, assistant, secretary, Andreeva with him in 1906, emigrated.
On behalf of the Central Committee of the Bolsheviks was accompanied by Gorky's trip to America to raise funds for the revolutionary underground. Then executes orders Lenin – delivery in Russia the Bolshevik newspaper "Proletariat" and the collection and dissemination of materials on the history of the Russian Revolution, raising funds and attracting a wide range of authors for "Pravda", etc.
Back in 1913 in Russia, played in Kiev, then in the theater Nezlobin (Moscow, role: Vera Filip – "The heart is not stone" Ostrovsky Rita Cavallini – "Roman" Sheldon).
After the October Revolution Andreeva actively participated in theater and public life. Was Commissioner of theaters and circuses in Petrograd, the Commissioner of the expert commission People's Commissariat, director of artistic and industrial department of the Soviet trade delegation in Germany.
One of the initiators of the Bolshoi Drama Theater; actress in this theater in 1919-26 (Lady Macbeth – "Macbeth" by Shakespeare and others).
In 1931-48 director of the Moscow House of Scientists. She was awarded the Order of Lenin and the Order of Red Banner of Labor.
Lit.: Maria Feodorovna Andreev. Conversation. Memoirs. Articles …, M., 1961, 2 ed., Moscow, 1963; Talanov A., Big destiny, MA, 1967.