The Minor (Fonvizin Play)
''The Minor'' (or Young ignoramus, Недоросль), is a 1782 play by Denis Fonvizin. Milton Ehre ''Gogol: Plays and Selected Writings'' 1980 - p xvi 0810111594 Fonvizin's The Minor (1782), besides being the best eighteenth-century Russian comedy, is exemplary of the tangle of elements that went into the genre and which Gogol was finally to unravel. It is a play with two faces: on the one side, a crisp satire of the boorishness and brutality of the worst segment of the Russian provincial gentry; on the other, a tiresome lecture on the virtues of enlightenment and aristocratic honor. References 1782 plays {{DEFAULTSORT:Minor, The ...
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Denis Fonvizin
Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (russian: Денис Иванович Фонвизин; —) was a playwright and writer of the Russian Enlightenment, one of the founders of literary comedy in Russia. His main works are two satirical comedies, one of them Young ignoramus, which mock contemporary Russian gentry and are still staged today. Life Denis Fonvizin was born in Moscow into a noble Russian Orthodox family, the first of eight children.'' Charles Arthur Moser (1979)''. Denis Fonvizin. — Boston: Twayne Publishers, pp. 11—12 ''Pyotr Petrov (1991)''. The History of the Russian Nobility in Two Volumes. Volume 1. — Moscow : Sovremennik, pp. 309—310 His mother Ekaterina Vasilievna Fonvizina (née Dmitrieva-Mamonova) (born 1718) belonged to the Smolensk Rurik branch on her father's side and to the Grushetsky family on her mother's side; she was a cousin-niece of Tsaritsa Agafya Grushetskaya and an aunt to Alexander Dmitriev-Mamonov who was famously a lover of Catherine the Gre ...
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