Elena Snezhina is a great Bulgarian dramatic actress. The name is actually an artistic pseudonym of Elena Yankova Kircheva, born on March 14, 1881 in Karlovo, NOVA recalls.
He studied theater art at the Moscow Art Theater under the Russian directors and theater pedagogues Konstantin Stanislavsky and Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
While playing Miss Hobbs in Jerome K. Jerome's play, her foot becomes entangled in an electric wire and she falls on stage. The milk splashes, the jug breaks into pieces. Anger and shame flare up in the actress, but she quickly recovers. He jumps and exclaims outside the words of his role: “You like him, you will make me boil milk for you!“ During this time, he collects the broken glass, quickly finds a towel and dries the spill. The audience laughs and claps. This is how she began to gain fame, that even if she fell on stage, she managed to make the audience believe that she was part of the plot and play it perfectly.
Since 1989, her name has been borne by the independent theater at the "Vasil Levski" community center. in her hometown of Karlovo.