Dombrovsky, Teofil

Dombrovsky, Teofil [Домбровський, Теофіль; Dombrovs'kyj], b ?, d ca 1861. An actor and entrepreneur in the 1840s and 1850s. Dombrovsky performed with Liudvig Mlotkovsky’s troupe in Kharkiv (1840–3) and Orel (1843–5), with the Alexander Theater in Saint Petersburg (1846–7), and with the Malyi Teatr theater in Moscow (1851–3). He was generally cast in Ukrainian character roles. In 1853 he organized his own troupe, which performed in Chernihiv and Kursk. Dombrovsky often played comic roles in the plays of Ivan Kotliarevsky and Hryhorii Kvitka-Osnovianenko.

[This article originally appeared in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine, vol. 1 (1984).]