Fyodor Alexeyevich Koni (Фёдор Алексеевич Кони, 21 March

1809 Events January–March * January 5 – The Treaty of the Dardanelles, between the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland and the Ottoman Empire, is concluded. * January 10 – Peninsular War – French Marshal Jean ...

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, - 6 February 1879,

Saint Petersburg Saint Petersburg ( rus, links=no, Санкт-Петербург, a=Ru-Sankt Peterburg Leningrad Petrograd Piter.ogg, r=Sankt-Peterburg, p=ˈsankt pʲɪtʲɪrˈburk), formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991), i ...

, Russian Empire) was a Russian dramatist,

theatre Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors or actresses, to present the experience of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The perform ...

critic and literary historian, editor and

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. Lawyer, author and politician

Anatoly Koni Anatoly Fedorovich Koni (Russian: Анато́лий Фёдорович Ко́ни; 9 February 1844 – 17 September 1927) was a Russian jurist, judge, politician and writer. He was the most politically influential jurist of the late Russian Empir ...

(1844-1927) was Fyodor Koni's son.

Biography

A Moscow University'a alumni, Koni first came to attention in the 1830s as an author of

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s (''The Hussar Girl'', ''Flats of Petersburg'', ''Husband in a Fireplace'', among them). In 1840 Koni founded and became the editor of the ''Pantheon'' magazine (which later merged with another publication and changed its name to ''Repertoire and Pantheon''). His epic monograph "The Life of Friedrich the Great" came out in 1863 and earned him a Doctor of Philosophy degree at the

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. The Works of F. A. Koni (compiled of plays only), came out in 1871. Fyodor Koni died in 1879 in Saint Petersburg and was buried at the

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of the

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.Александро-Невская Лавра. Монастырские кладбища
/ Alexander Nevsky Lavra. The Monastery cemeteries.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Koni, Fyodor Russian dramatists and playwrights Russian editors 1809 births 1879 deaths Burials at Nikolskoe Cemetery