Elizaveta Goreva

Elizaveta Nikolayevna Goreva (, née Voronina, 1859—18 July 1917) was a Russian theatre actress and entrepreneur.

Biography Born in Poltava, Russian Empire, to the head of the city police department. Her parents died when she was young, and she was raised by a relative, Nikolal Miloslavsky, a well known actor of his time who gave her first drama lessons. Under his guidance she debuted on stage the Odessa Theatre, then moved to Kharkiv, and later Saratov and Rostov-on-Don. In the 1878-1879 season she worked in Taganrog, the next year returned to Odessa and in 1880 found herself in Vilno where she succeeded the recently deceased prima A.N. Melnikova-Samoilova as Mary, Queen of Scots in Friedrich Schiller's Mary Stuart, to much public and critical acclaim. Mamont Dalsky, Marius Petipa Jr., Nikolai Roshchin-Insarov and, occasionally, her former husband Fyodor Gorev. The Goreva Theatre lasted for just two years, folded for financial reasons but left a strong mark upon the city's cultural life and received good press. She went on to perform in the Russian province, and in 1904 as part of the Paver Orlenev troupe visited several European cities.