Anna Mar

{{Short description|Russian screenwriter, novelist, journalist (1887–1917)}}

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{{Infobox person

| name = Anna Mar

| native_name = Анна Мар

| native_name_lang = ru

| other_names = Anna Yakovlevna Lenshina,
Princess Dream

| birth_name = Anna Yakovlevna Brovar

| birth_date = February 19, 1887

| birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire

| death_date = April 1, 1917 (aged 30)

| death_place = Moscow, Russian Empire

| burial_place = Vvedenskoye Cemetery

| occupation = Screenwriter, playwright, novelist, journalist

}}

Anna Mar (1887–1917; née Anna Yakovlevna Brovar, {{Langx|ru|Анна Мар}}), who used the pseudonym Princess Dream, was a Russian screenwriter, playwright, novelist, and journalist.{{Cite book |last=Room |first=Adrian |chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eSIhzKnNUf4C&pg=PA311 |title=Dictionary of Pseudonyms: 13,000 Assumed Names and Their Origins, 5th ed. |date=2014-01-10 |publisher=McFarland |isbn=978-0-7864-5763-2 |pages=311 |language=en |chapter=Anna Mar |via=Google Books}}{{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Anna |date=2020 |title=Anna Mar |url=https://wfpp.columbia.edu/pioneer/anna-mar/ |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Women Film Pioneers Project |publisher=Columbia University}}{{Cite web |last=Andreeva |first=Anna |date=2020 |title=Отвечает Принцесса Греза |trans-title=Princess Dream answers |url=https://chapaev.media/articles/12567 |access-date=2024-10-11 |website=Чапаев (Sessions magazine), No. 76 |pages=96–101 |language=ru}} She was one of the most prolific screenwriters of early Russian cinema and 13 films were made from her scripts between 1914 and 1918.

Her most significant work is the novel Zhenshchina Na Kreste (English: Woman on the Cross; in a censored version, 1916; the full text was published in 1918).{{Cite book |last=Barta |first=Peter I. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=o9ZcbTWtpeEC |title=Gender and Sexuality in Russian Civilization |date=2001 |publisher=Psychology Press |isbn=978-0-415-27130-1 |pages=255–278 |language=en |chapter=Sex, Religion And Censorship In A Russian Woman's Novel Of The Silver Age: Anna Mar's Zhenshchina Na Kreste (Woman On The Cross)}} From 1914 to 1917, under the pseudonym "Princess Dream", Mar was in charge of the “Intimate Conversations” section of the “Journal for Women.” Her constant dialogue with readers supplied Mar with themes for her many screenplays.

She died of suicide on April 1, 1917, in Moscow.