Maria Mikhailovna Blumenthal-Tamarina[a] (née Klimova;[b] 16 July 1859 – October 16, 1939), was a Soviet and Russian movie and theater actress.
By 1887, she had appeared with a professional troupe in the Alexandre Dumas play Kean at Petrovsky Park in Moscow.
By 1889, she began working in the Mikhail Valentovich Lentovsky Theater Group (Лентовский, Михаил Валентинович).
This troupe traveled throughout the Russian Empire between 1890 and 1901, reaching locations such as Tbilisi, Vladikavkaz, Rostov-on-Don, and Kharkiv.
[6][7] In 1911, she worked on the Boris Tchaikovsky (Чайковский, Борис Витальевич) silent movie The Living Corpse.