Ivan Leontievich Leontiev (Леонтьев, Иван Леонтьевич

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 ...

, 1856–1911) was an officer in the army of the

Russian Empire The Russian Empire was an empire and the final period of the Russian monarchy from 1721 to 1917, ruling across large parts of Eurasia. It succeeded the Tsardom of Russia following the Treaty of Nystad, which ended the Great Northern War. ...

, who wrote plays and novels under the pen name Ivan Shcheglov.Anton Chekhov; Stephen Mulrine, Jutta Hercher (eds.) ''Chekhov on Theatre'' 2013 Notes: "Leontiev-Shcheglov, Ivan Leontievich (1856-1911) Writer and dramatist, whose one-sided infatuation with theatre Chekhov persistently tried to discourage, since he regarded Leontiev-Shcheglov as a much better prose writer. Leontiev, who wrote under the pseudonym Shcheglov, accused Chekhov of having plagiarised his Tragedian Despite Himself from his play A Husband in the Country." His best known work is ''The Dacha Husband ''(Dachnyi muzh). The first English translation of Shcheglov's novel was made by Michael R. Katz in 2009.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Shcheglov, Ivan 1856 births 1911 deaths Writers from the Russian Empire