Alexandra Kolosova
Alexandra Mikhailovna Kolosova was a Russian stage actress, later translator and memoirist. She was the daughter of Elena Kolosova, a prima ballerina.Life
The first Russian theatre star to receive education in France, Alexandra became highly popular for her roles in Molière's comedies. As the Alexandrinsky Theatre was launched in 1832, Kolosova joined the troupe with her husband, actor Vasily Karatygin and for a decade the couple played there most of the leading roles.
After retirement Kolosova-Karatygina devoted herself to literature: she made several translations and wrote Memoirs which appeared posthumously in 1881, in Russky Vestnik. In it she addressed among other issues that of her relationship with Alexander Pushkin, who first lampooned her in an epigram, then sang her a paean in "An Epistle to Katenin".
