Actress

Tatyana Knyazeva graduated from the Leningrad State Institute of Theater, Music, and Cinematography named after N. Cherkasov (professor I.Gorbachev’s class) in 1987.   In 1986, still a student, she debuted on the Pushkin theater stage in the role of Mashenka in the performance after a play of the same name by A. Afinogenov. Her first stage heroines were all very young girls, practically teenagers: Khimka (“Balzaminov’s Marriage” by A. Ostrovsky, 1987), Girl (“Suicide” by N. Erdman, 1988), Tanya (“Slowdown in the Skies” by R. Solntsev, 1988). Ease and naturalness of the young actresses’s impersonation were organically complemented by her dramatic temperament and internal strength. She played Cinderella in Nora Reikhsteing’s performance “The First Ball of Cinderella” by Ye. Schwarts (1988). Her Cinderella could be exquisite and strong at the same time; she could be a timid step daughter and a fairy princess. The actress was building up a confidential dialogue with the children’s audience. This performance had successfully lasted on the stage to a big extent thanks impersonator of the major role.  Beatrice Fior?ca in Vladimir Vorobiev’s performance “A Cap with Jingles” by Pirandello (1993) became the first major role of Tatyana Knyazeva.

In the years of her work at the theater, Tatyana Knyazeva has played about 30 roles.  Those include Sasha (Platonov by A. Chekhov, Director Svetlana Milyayeva, 1994); Celia (The Foolish Lady by Lope de Vega, 1994); Utrata (“The Winter Fairy Tale” by W. Shakespeare, 1995); Liza (Poverty is No Shame by A. Ostrovsky, Director Elena Chernaya, 1997); Solveig  (Peer Gynt by H. Ibsen, 1997); Tsarina (The Tale of  Tsar Saltan by A. Pushkin, Director Vladimir Golub, 1999); Cleopatra Mamayeva (Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man by A. Ostrovsky, Director Vladimir Golub, 2002) and others.

At present, Tatyana Knyazeva is engaged in the performance Ksenia. The History of Love by V. Levanov (Director Valery Fokin, 2009). She is engaged in the group scenes of W.Shakespeare's Hamlet (Director Valery Fokin, 2010) 

In 2002 – 2006, Tatyana Knyazeva taught acting techniques at the theater department of the Baltic Institute of Languages and International Cooperation.