Sergey Ivanovich Turbin (russian: Сергей Иванович Турбин; 1821–1884) was a

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playwright and

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Biography

Turbin, was a Moscow University graduate; later he joined the Nikolyevskaya Academy to receive the military education and start the military career. He served in the Russian army as an

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officer, then moved to the General Staff office in

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 ...

, then, in the rank of a Colonel joined the infantry. Travelling on his missions all across Russia provided Turbin with a bulk of material for his subsequent literary career. Highly acclaimed were his ''Notes of an Old Artillery Man'' published in 1857 by ''

Sovremennik ''Sovremennik'' ( rus, «Современник», p=səvrʲɪˈmʲenʲːɪk, a=Ru-современник.ogg, "The Contemporary") was a Russian literary, social and political magazine, published in Saint Petersburg in 1836–1866. It came out f ...

'', as well as the accounts of his travels over

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(Saint Petersburgs's ''Vedomosti'', 1863-1865). A series of historical studies by Turbin were published by ''

Russkaya Starina ''Russkaya Starina'' ( rus, Русская старина, p=ˈruskəjə stərʲɪˈna; ''Russian Antiquity'') was a Russian history journal published monthly in St. Petersburg by amateur historian Mikhail Semevsky and his successors between 18 ...

'' in 1871-1873. Popular in the late 19th century were the theatre productions of Turbin's plays: ''Two Mothers-in-Law'' (Свекровь и теща, 1864), ''A Sprightly Lady'' (Бойкая барыня, 1864), ''A Pansioner at the Station'' (Пансионерка на станции, 1871), ''The Image of Nature'' (Картинка с натуры, 1864), ''A Hostess and a Guest'' (Хозяйка и постоялец, 1871), ''A Tamer Woman'' (Укротительница, 1871). Described as an eccentric "atheist thinker, critical of

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," Turbin is considered to be the prototype of Forov, a character of Nikolay Leskov's '' At Daggers Drawn'' novel.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Turbin, Sergey 1821 births 1884 deaths Russian dramatists and playwrights Russian male dramatists and playwrights 19th-century dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire