Emmanuil Martynovich Beskin (1877 - 20 January 1940) was a theatre critic and historian in the Russian Empire and later the Soviet Union. He wrote over 2,000 articles and reviews.
He was educated as a lawyer, but became involved in theatre criticism in the early 1900s writing for the magazines "Ramp", "Ramp and Actor", and in ''Teatral'riaia gazeta'' (Theatre Gazette). He provided a series of "Moscow Letters" for ''Theatre and Art'' from 1909 to 1913. From 1921 to 1922 he was editor of the newspaper "Theater Moscow". He was chief editor of ''Rabis'' from 1927 - 1934.
He contributed the essay “On the new ways” to the 1922 theatre criticism anthology, ''
On Theatre
''On Theatre'' was a Russian book published to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Russian Revolution. It was published by Тверской издательство (Tver Publishing House) based in Tver. This publishing house had been recently ...
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Books
*''The History of the Russian Theatre'', (1928)
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A. I. Sumbatov-Yuzhin'', (1936)
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M. N. Yermolova (1853-1928)'', (1936)
References
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1877 births
1940 deaths
Theatre critics from the Russian Empire
Soviet theatre critics