Vladimir Dmitrevsky
Vladimir Alexandrovich Demert was a Russian stage actor, one of the leading figures at the Moscow's Maly Theatre, better known under his stage name Dmitrevsky.
Having debuted there in 1847, he proved to be a versatile master, who excelled in all genres, giving most convincing portraits of characters belonging to different classes and cultures, in plays by Nikolai Gogol, Denis Fonvizin, William Shakespeare, Moliere, but mostly Alexander Ostrovsky. In all, he played 19 parts in Ostrovsky's plays, of which the best-received were Kuligin, Ilya, Chebakov, Vyshnevsky, Golutvin and Khlynov.
Dmitrevsky stayed with Maly up until his death in 1871; he also taught at the Mikhail Shchepkin Higher Theatre School in 1856—1862.
The writer and poet Nikolai Demert was his brother.
