Pyotr Andreyevich Karatygin (russian: Пётр Андреевич Каратыгин, 11 July 1805,

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 ...

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– 6 October 1879, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian dramatist and

actor An actor or actress is a person who portrays a character in a performance. The actor performs "in the flesh" in the traditional medium of the theatre or in modern media such as film, radio, and television. The analogous Greek term is (), li ...

. The tragic actor Vasily Karatygin (1802-1853) was his brother. Karatygin debuted on stage in 1823 and rose to fame performing in

Alexander Griboyedov Alexander Sergeyevich Griboyedov (russian: Александр Сергеевич Грибоедов, ''Aleksandr Sergeevich Griboedov'' or ''Sergeevich Griboyedov''; 15 January 179511 February 1829), formerly romanized as Alexander Sergueevich Gri ...

's ''

Woe from Wit ''Woe from Wit'' (, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe", ''Wit's End'', and so forth) is Alexander Griboyedov's comedy in verse, satirizing the society of post-Napoleonic Moscow, or, as a high official in the play styled it, "a ...

'' (the parts of Zagoretsky, Repetilov and Chatsky). From 1832 to 1838 he was head of the Drama department in the Saint Petersburg Theatre College, where he discovered and tutored several future Russian stage stars, including . Pyotr Karatygin wrote 68 plays, 53 of them

vaudeville Vaudeville (; ) is a theatrical genre of variety entertainment born in France at the end of the 19th century. A vaudeville was originally a comedy without psychological or moral intentions, based on a comical situation: a dramatic composition ...

s, mostly elaborate variations on foreign plays and Russian novels. In the 1860s and 1870s he wrote a series of short memoirs on the history of the Russian theatre. Edited and previewed by his son, Pyotr Karatygin's ''Notes'' were serialized by '' Russkaya Starina'' in 1872–1879, to much critical acclaim.

References

Literature

* Belyaev, M. The History of the Old Russian Vaudeville. The Jubilee Collection, Leningrad, 1925. * Uspensky, V. The Classic Russian Vaudeville. 1959. * Smirnov-Sokolsky, N
Pyotr Karatygin's Notebook
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