The following rare photos are portraits supplied for publicity purposes by Morris Gest to announce the forthcoming 1925 tour of the Moscow Art Theatre in America. Olga still spelled her name "Baklanova" (with a "k") at that time. The final five photos date from 1923-4 and were also used to publicize Olga's forthcoming arrival in America. It was Mr. Gest who in 1926 convinced Olga to stay in America; she would never again visit her Russian homeland.
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"OLGA BAKLANOVA,
Leading Member of The Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio of Vladimir
Nemirovitch-Dantchenko which Morris Gest plans to bring to America next
season"
(This photo is from c. 1922 and features Olga in costume for the title
role of 'La Perichole'.) |
"Olga Baklanova as
Zarema in "The Fountain of Bakhshi-Sarai"; Text by Alexander Pushkin,
score by Anton Arensky. On the bill, 'Love and Death' as given by
The Moscow Art Theatre Musical Studio of Vladimir Nemirovich-Dantchenko
which F. Ray Comstock and Morris Gest are bringing to America this
season (1925)" |
"Olga Baklanova as Zarema in "The
Fountain of Bakhshi-Sarai"; Text by Alexander Pushkin, score by Anton
Arensky. On the bill, 'Love and Death' as given by The Moscow Art
Theatre Musical Studio of Vladimir Nemirovich-Dantchenko which F. Ray
Comstock and Morris Gest are bringing to America this season (1925)" |
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"Olga Baklanova as Lysistrata and Pyotr Saravotsky as her husband, Kinesias,in the second set of Aristophanes "Lysistrata" as given by THE MOSCOW ART THEATRE MUSICAL STUDIO of Vladimir Nemirovitch-Dantchenko which F.Ray Comstock and Morris Gest are bringing to America this season".
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