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Vasily Samoylov
Vasily Vasilyevich Samoylov (russian: Василий Васильевич Самойлов, 25 January 1813, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia — 8 April 1887, Saint Petersburg, Imperial Russia) was a Russian stage actor, associated with Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg. Initially an opera singer, he was also an artist whose several albums of paintings include the gallery of stage self-portraits, amounting to a visual autobiography.В.В. Самойлов at the Russian Online encyclopedia Krugosvet Biography Samoylov was born into an artistic family of the opera singers Vasily Samoylov (1782—1839) and Sofya Chernikova (1787-1854) and was educated f ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ivan Kramskoy
Ivan Nikolaevich Kramskoi (russian: Ива́н Никола́евич Крамско́й; June 8 (O.S. May 27), 1837, Ostrogozhsk – April 6 (O.S. March 24), 1887, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian painter and art critic. He was an intellectual leader of the art movement known as the Wanderers between 1860–1880. Life Kramskoi came from an impoverished petit-bourgeois family. From 1857 to 1863 he studied at the St. Petersburg Academy of Arts; he reacted against academic art and was an initiator of the "Revolt of the Fourteen" which ended with the expulsion from the Academy of a group of its graduates, who organized the ''Artel of Artists'' (""). Influenced by the ideas of the Russian revolutionary democrats, Kramskoi asserted the high public duty of the artist, principles of realism, and the moral substance and nationality of art. He became one of the main founders and ideologists of the Company of Itinerant Art Exhibitions (or Peredvizhniki). In 1863–1868 he taught at the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kondraty Efimovich
Kondraty Dmitrievich Efimovich (russian: Кондратий Дмитриевич Ефимович, 1815—1847) was a Russian playwright and theatre critic, also known under his pen name Ivan Ralyanch (Иван Ралянч). Having debuted in 1844 with ''Espanioletto, or Father and Artist'' (its Alexandrinsky Theatre production panned by both Nekrasov and Belinsky), Efimovich soon eschewed melodrama in favour of stark realism and in the course of the next two years developed into a sophisticated author, sensitive to Russian lower classes' real life problems, as well as language. Efimovich has been credited as a master of psychological drama of his time, an exponent of the then popular natural school and a follower of Gogol. In 1846 he chose to dramatize the latter's ''Taras Bulba ''Taras Bulba'' (russian: «Тарас Бульба»; ) is a romanticized historical novella set in the first half of the 17th century, written by Nikolai Gogol (1809-1852). It features elderly Za ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
King Lear
''King Lear'' is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare. It is based on the mythological Leir of Britain. King Lear, in preparation for his old age, divides his power and land between two of his daughters. He becomes destitute and insane and a proscribed crux of political machinations. The first known performance of any version of Shakespeare's play was on Saint Stephen's Day in 1606. The three extant publications from which modern editors derive their texts are the 1608 quarto (Q1) and the 1619 quarto (Q2, unofficial and based on Q1) and the 1623 First Folio. The quarto versions differ significantly from the folio version. The play was often revised after the English Restoration for audiences who disliked its dark and depressing tone, but since the 19th century Shakespeare's original play has been regarded as one of his supreme achievements. Both the title role and the supporting roles have been coveted by accomplished actors, and the play has been widely adapted. In his ' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vladimir Sollogub
Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub (russian: link=no, Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соллогу́б; german: link=no, Woldemar Graf Sollogub (Sollohub); 20 August 1813 in St. Petersburg – 17 June 1882 in Bad Homburg) was a minor Russian writer, author of novelettes, essays, plays, and memoirs. His paternal grandfather was a Polish aristocrat, and he grew up in the midst of St. Petersburg high society. He graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1834 and was attached to the Ministry of Internal Affairs the following year in Vienna. His literary career began in 1837 in the journal ''Sovremennik''. In 1840 he married Sofya Mikhailovna Velgorskaya. In 1843 he visited Nice and met Gogol. From 1856 he was an Officer for Special Commissions in the imperial court; he took an interest in prison reform, and from 1875 was сhair of the Commission for the Reorganization of Prisons in Russia. In 1858 he was sent abroad to study European theater, and in 1877 he becam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dmitry Averkiyev
Dmitry Vasilyevich Averkiyev (russian: Дмитрий Васильевич Аверкиев, (October 12, 1836, Yekaterinodar, Russian Empire, — January 20, 1905, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian playwright, theatre critic, novelist, publicist and translator. He is the author of the Russian libretto to '' Rogneda'' by Alexander Serov. Averkiyev's best known plays were ''Frol Skorbeyev'' (Фрол Скорбеев, 1869) and ''Old Times in Kashira'' (Каширская старина, 1872); both continued to be produced into the Soviet times. He was also an acclaimed theatre critic who contributed to '' Epokha'', ''Moskovskiye Vedomosti'', '' Novoye Vremya'' and '' Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya'' (where he was the head of the literary section, in 1869–1871). Averkiyev's magnum opus ''On Drama'' won him the Pushkin Prize The Pushkin Prize (russian: Пушкинская премия) was established in 1881 by the Russian Academy of Sciences to honor one of the grea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Palm
Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм, , Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire, - , Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, who also used the pseudonym P. Alminsky. A member of the Petrashevsky Circle, Palm in 1847 was arrested, spent 8 months in the Petropavlovsk Fortress, had his death sentence changed to deportation and served 7 years in the Russian Army. Among his best known works are ''Alexey Slobodin. The History of One Family'' (1874, novel) and ''Our Friend Neklyuzhev'' (1879, drama). Biography Alexander Ivanovich Palm was born in Krasnoslobodsk, Penza region, son of a provincial state official and a serf peasant woman. As a teenager he enrolled into the Saint Petersburg military school and after graduation in 1842 joined the Russian Guards as a junior officer. In 1843 his debut poem published by '' Literaturnaya Gazeta'' received praise from critic and playwright Fyodor Koni. In the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Krylov (playwright)
Viktor Alexandrovich Krylov (russian: Виктор Александрович Крылов, 2 February 1838 — 13 March 1908) was a Russian playwright (who occasionally used the pen name Viktor Alexandrov), theatre critic, librettist, Imperial Theatres official and one of the major contributors to the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary.Krylov's biography in the Soviet Literary Encyclopedia. Biography Born in to a lawyer, Krylov studied at the Moscow Engineering College, where he became friends with fellow student and budding composer . Krylov started ou ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nikolai Chayev
Nikolai Alexandrovich Chayev (russian: Николай Александрович Чаев; 8 May 1824 – 16 November 1914) was a Russian Literature, Russian writer, poet and playwright. Чаев, Н.А. at the Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary // Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона. — С.-Пб.: Брокгауз-Ефрон. 1890—1907. Chayev was born in Kostroma Governorate, Imperial Russia. A Moscow University graduate who for several years was the chief supervisor of the Kremlin Armoury, he made his debut in print in 1859, originally as a fiction writer. He then turned to drama, choosing the early Russian history as his theme, and had his best-known work produced at the Alexandrinsky Theatre in Saint Petersburg (''Svat Faddeyich'', Сват Ф ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Viktor Dyachenko
Viktor Antonovich Dyachenko (russian: Виктор Антонович Дьяченко, born 1818, — died 1876) was a Russian playwright and theatre critic. Having debuted in 1830 with ''God Gives You a Prayer...'' (За Богом молитва, за Царем служба не пропадает), he authored, in all, 76 plays, the most successful of which was ''Victim for Victim'' (Жертва за жертву), ''God's Punishment'' (Кара Божия, both 1861) and ''The Governor'' (Гувернёр, 1864). At the peak of his success, in 1860—1863, he wrote 23 plays, 21 of which were included into the five-volume ''Drama Works'' collection which came out in Moscow in 1873—1876. Dealing predominantly with family life, Dyachenko's plays were highly popular with the general public as well as the actors who admired their structural perfection and simple, expressive language. Vasily Samoylov, Elena Struyskaya and Glikeriya Fedotova Glikeriya Nikolaevna Fedotova (ru ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pyotr Boborykin
Pyotr Dmitryevich Boborykin (russian: Пётр Дми́триевич Боборы́кин; – 12 August 1921) was a Russian writer, playwright, and journalist. Biography Boborykin was born into the family of a landowner. He studied at Kazan State University and the Dorpat University, but he never completed his education. He made his debut as a playwright in 1860. In 1863-1864 he published an autobiographical novel, ''The Pathway''. He was the editor-publisher of the journal '' Library for Reading'' (1863–1865), and simultaneously worked for the theatre magazine ''Russian Stage''. He spent a long period abroad in the 1890s, where he met Émile Zola, Edmond de Goncourt and Alphonse Daudet. In 1900 he was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Wife (1845-1925),married in 1872 - Sophia Boborykina, Russian and French translator, writer, actress. Works Boborykin worked on the journals ''Notes of the Fatherland'', '' The European Herald'', '' The Northern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Sukhovo-Kobylin
Aleksandr Vasilyevich Sukhovo-Kobylin (russian: Александр Васильевич Сухово-Кобылин) (, Moscow - , Beaulieu-sur-Mer, France), was a Russian philosopher and playwright, chiefly known for his satirical plays criticizing Russian imperial bureaucracy. His sister Evgenia Tur was a popular novelist, critic and journalist and his sister Sofia was a painter of some note. Biography A rich aristocrat who often travelled, Sukhovo-Kobylin was arrested, prosecuted and tried for seven years in Russia for the murder of his French mistress Louise-Simone Dimanche, a crime of which he is nowadays generally believed to have been innocent. He only managed to achieve acquittal by means of giving enormous bribes to court officials and by using all of his contacts in the Russian elite. According to his own version as well as the generally accepted view today, he was targeted precisely because he had the financial capabilities to give such bribes. Based on his personal exp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexey Pisemsky
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (russian: Алексе́й Феофила́ктович Пи́семский) () was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with ''Sovremennik'' magazine in the early 1860s. A realistic playwright, along with Aleksandr Ostrovsky he was responsible for the first dramatization of ordinary people in the history of Russian theatre.Banham (1998, 861). "Pisemsky's great narrative gift and exceptionally strong grip on reality make him one of the best Russian novelists," according to D.S. Mirsky. Pisemsky's first novel '' Boyarschina'' (1847, published 1858) was originally forbidden for its unflattering description of the Russian nobility. His principal novels are ''The Simpleton'' (1850), ''One Thousand Souls'' (1858), which is considered his best work of the kind, and ''Troubled Seas'', which gives a pic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
