Olga Bokshanskaya
Olga Bokshanskaya (born Nurenberg; 1891, Tartu, Russian Empire – 1948, Moscow, Russian SFSR) – the theatre figure, worked in the Moscow Artistic Academic Theatre as a secretary of Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko.
Her family (Nurenberg) lived in Riga at the beginning of the 20-th century.
Her sister, Yelena married a famous writer Mikhail Bulgakov and was a prototype of Bulgakov's Margarita.
Olga Bokshanskaya was a secretary in the Commission on granting Stalin premiums. She left a great epistolaric legacy about the activities of Moscow Art Academic Theatre in 1920-1940.
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