Talents and Admirers (Russian: Таланты и поклонники, Romanized as Talanty y poklonniki) is a play by Alexander Ostrovsky premiered on December 20, 1881, in Maly Theatre.
This aggrieved Alexander Ostrovsky so much, he fell ill.[2] Talents and Admirers was premiered on December 20, 1881, in Maly Theatre as the actor Nikolai Muzilh’s benefice (he played Narokov).
Negina was performed by Maria Yermolova, Domna Panteleyevna by Olga Sadovskaya, Meluzov by Mikhail Sadovsky, Velikatov by Alexander Lensky.
The later Maly Theatre's productions (1885, 1895, 1900, 1902, 1912) featured among others Sergey Aydarov (as Dulebov), Alexander Yuzhin (Bakin), Konstantin Rybakov and Mikhail Klimov (Velikatov), Prov Sadovsky Jr. and Ivan Ryzhov (Meluzov).
The production also featured Varvara Strelskaya (Domna Panteleyevna), Alexander Nilsky (Dulebov), Marius Petipa (Bakin), Ivan Kiselevsky (Velikatov), Fyodor Gorev (Meluzov), Antonina Abarinova (Smelskaya), Vladimir Davydov (Narokov).