This machine-knitted stage costume belonged to the Merited Artist of the RSFSR Galina Ivanova-Yamaeva. It consists of a dress and a waist apron and outwardly resembles the Mari women’s traditional costumes. Both items of clothing are made of plain light beige yarn. The hemline, neckline, bodice, shoulders, and cuffs of the dress, as well as the waistline and the bottom part of the apron, are decorated with the brown embroidery.
The costume was made in the early 1990s by the dressmaking workshop, which was located in the consumer services center of Yoshkar-Ola and belonged to the knitting factory “Beryozka”. There, customers could choose the style of a costume and embroidery pattern to their liking.
Galina Ivanova was born on December 6, 1942, in the village of Ishtra, in the Paranginsky District of the Mari ASSR. She was the oldest of six children. Her mother was a primary school teacher and her father worked as a lawyer.
When she finished school, Galina Ivanova entered the famous GITIS, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, to study acting. After graduation, Ivanova was sent to a troupe of the Mari National Theatre Drama named after M. Shketan, where she worked almost all her life — from 1965 to 2002. In 1970, she met Anatoly Yamaev, a physical education teacher, and soon married him and became Ivanova-Yamaeva.
In almost 40 years of her career, the actress got about 100 parts, mostly the leading ones. She played Larisa Ogudalova from “Without a Dowry” by Alexander Ostrovsky, Blanche from the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, and Kattrin from the play “Mother Courage and Her Children” by Bertold Brecht.
In 1977, Galina Ivanova-Yamaeva was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Mari ASSR and 3 years later became a Merited Artist of the RSFSR. She received various theater awards five times and was elected a deputy twice — to the Supreme Soviet of the Mari ASSR and the Yoshkar-Ola City Council of People’s Deputies. From 1993 to 2004, she taught at the Department of Theater of Mari Republican College of Culture and Art named after I. S. Palantai.
The costume was made in the early 1990s by the dressmaking workshop, which was located in the consumer services center of Yoshkar-Ola and belonged to the knitting factory “Beryozka”. There, customers could choose the style of a costume and embroidery pattern to their liking.
Galina Ivanova was born on December 6, 1942, in the village of Ishtra, in the Paranginsky District of the Mari ASSR. She was the oldest of six children. Her mother was a primary school teacher and her father worked as a lawyer.
When she finished school, Galina Ivanova entered the famous GITIS, Russian Institute of Theatre Arts, to study acting. After graduation, Ivanova was sent to a troupe of the Mari National Theatre Drama named after M. Shketan, where she worked almost all her life — from 1965 to 2002. In 1970, she met Anatoly Yamaev, a physical education teacher, and soon married him and became Ivanova-Yamaeva.
In almost 40 years of her career, the actress got about 100 parts, mostly the leading ones. She played Larisa Ogudalova from “Without a Dowry” by Alexander Ostrovsky, Blanche from the play “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams, and Kattrin from the play “Mother Courage and Her Children” by Bertold Brecht.
In 1977, Galina Ivanova-Yamaeva was awarded the title Honored Artist of the Mari ASSR and 3 years later became a Merited Artist of the RSFSR. She received various theater awards five times and was elected a deputy twice — to the Supreme Soviet of the Mari ASSR and the Yoshkar-Ola City Council of People’s Deputies. From 1993 to 2004, she taught at the Department of Theater of Mari Republican College of Culture and Art named after I. S. Palantai.
