{"product_id":"the-sirens-of-the-hotel-serge-gregory-9781501780417","title":"The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre: An Actress, a Writer, and the Creative Life in the Silver Age of Chekhov","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCombining history and biography, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Sirens of the Hotel Louvre \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003efocuses on the intimate relationship and professional collaboration between two creative women in Russia's Silver Age (1880s-1920).\u003c\/b\u003e The actress Lidia Yavorskaya and the writer Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik overcame moral and social boundaries to assert themselves as successful artists. Their lives intersected with practically all the major theatrical entrepreneurs and artists of the period in Moscow and St. Petersburg, most notably Anton Chekhov.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe opening in the 1880s of private theaters in Moscow and St. Petersburg resulted in an extraordinary flourishing of the dramatic arts, exposing theatergoers to the latest works by both Russian and Western European playwrights. In\u003ci\u003e The Sirens of the Hotel Louvre\u003c\/i\u003e, Yavorskaya and Shchepkina-Kupernik serve as guides to this remarkable artistic and literary world. Serge Gregory shows how their success in fashioning independent careers reflects the emergence of the theater as one of the few professional paths available for educated women in nineteenth-century Russia who wished to escape the constraints of traditional family life.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Serge Gregory\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1501780417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781501780417\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Northern Illinois University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/15\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 330\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover","brand":"Serge Gregory","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451005948159,"sku":"9781501780417","price":130.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_42cec85c-37c4-4316-9f69-28996e22a250.jpg?v=1735876159","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-sirens-of-the-hotel-serge-gregory-9781501780417","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}