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Vasily Nikolayevich Andreyev-Burlak
Andreyev-Burlak
also: В. Н. Андреев-Бурлак, V. N. Andreyev-Burlak
Popular Russian actor famous for comic monologue recitations; invoked as the standard for delivering a particular pair of peasant-boy comic lines in "Among Dear Muscovites."
Reading notes
- On June and July §32 Andreyev-Burlak
Popular Russian actor known for comic and dramatic monologue recitations on provincial stages; invoked as the reciter who would presumably perform Meshchersky's overwrought prose aloud.
- To A. N. Kanayev, 26 March 1883. Moscow. §7 Burlak
Vasily Nikolayevich Andreyev-Burlak, a popular actor famous for his comic monologue recitations, one of the three leading performers who broke away from Korsh's troupe.