Vera Michurina-Samoilova

Among her notable roles were Reneve in Light Without Heat (by Alexander Ostrovsky and Nikolai Solovyov), Natalia Petrovna in Turgenev's A Month in the Country, Ranevskaia in Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard, and Lady Milford in Schiller's Intrigue and Love.

Her notable roles in Soviet Russia included Zvezdintseva in Tolstoy's The Fruits of Enlightenment, Khlestova in Griboyedov's Woe from Wit, Polina Bardina in Gorky's Enemies, and Gurmyzhskaya in Ostrovsky's The Forest.

[1] During the Siege of Leningrad, Michurina-Samoilova remained in the city; she was 75 by then and her health did not permit her to be evacuated.

During the siege she participated in the cultural resistance, performing in the readings and plays of the Microphone Theatre.

She published a memoir, Sixty Years in the Arts in 1949, including her description of the siege.