Anna Borisoglebskaya

Anna Ivanivna Borisoglebskaya (; 1868 – 29 September 1939) was a Ukrainian actress and People's Artist of the Ukrainian SSR.

Early years Anna Borisoglebskaya was born on 1868, in the city of Sebezh in the Vitebsk Governorate (present-day Pskov).

Borisoglebskaya died on 29 September 1939, in Kyiv. then spent four years with Panas Saksahansky and Ivan Karpenko-Karyi's troupe. In 1906–1907, she toured with the Shchepkin and Kolesnichenko troupes. From 1907 to 1917, she worked at the stationary theater led by Mykola Sadovsky in Kyiv.

She created a gallery of stage characters in the theater: Rindichka, Teklya, Gapka, Varvara ("During the Inspection," "Until the Sun Rises, Dew Eats Eyes," "Zaydigolova," "Chmyr" by Kropyvnytskyi), Sekleta, Vustya ("Chasing Two Hares," "Oh, Grits, Don't Go..." by Starytskyi), Hanna ("Talented" by Karpenko-Karyi), Mother (in the plays "Sueta" by Karpenko-Karyi and "The Forest Song" by Lesya Ukrainka), Stekha ("Nazar Stodolya" by Shevchenko), Shkandybiha ("Limerivna" by Panas Myrnyi), Mazaylikha ("Mina Mazaylo" by Mykola Kulish).

In 1919, Borisoglebskaya became one of the founders of the First State Ukrainian Drama Theater named after T. G. Shevchenko (now in the city of Dnipro — Taras Shevchenko Dnipro Academic Ukrainian Music and Drama Theatre).

From 1925 until the end of her life, she worked at the Ivan Franko Theater in Kyiv. Here she created characters in plays such as: Oryna ("97" by Kulish), Klara ("Fear" by Afanasyev), Marfa, Varvara ("Truth," "Bohdan Khmelnytsky" by Korniychuk).