Maria Yermolova

Portrait of Maria Yermolova by Valentin Serov.

Maria Nikolayevna Yermolova (‹See Tfd›Russian: Мария Николаевна Ермолова; 15 July [O.S. 3 July] 1853 in Moscow – 12 March 1928, id.) was a Russian actress, said to be the greatest in the history of the Maly Theatre in Moscow and the first person to be proclaimed the "People's Artist of the Republic" (1921).