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Alexander Ostrovsky
Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost single-handedly created a Russian national repertoire." His dramas are among the most widely read and frequently performed stage pieces in Russia.
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culture · Russian playwright (1823–1886) · translator · librettist · playwright · journalist · writer · theatre director · also Alexander Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Ostrovsky, Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, A. N. Ostrovsky, AN Ostrovsky
Born 31 March 1823 · Died 2 June 1886 · Q171976
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1961· 1 entry
To become the Leningrad Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography, now the St Petersburg Institute of Theatre, Music and Cinematography
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1945· 1 entry
Which grew into the Uzbekistan State Institute of Arts and Culture
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1886· 1 entry
Died 1886-06-02.
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1881· 1 entry
Came to Petersburg with two reports: "On the Situation in the Modern Drama Art in Russia" and "On the Needs of the Imperial Theatre", and Minister I
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1879· 1 entry
Said in a Russkaya Starina interview: "I've been for quite a while cherishing a dream of how after all I'll start a book of memoirs and relax a bit, enjoying myself, but now I know for sure this will remain nothing mo
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1874· 1 entry
Ostrovsky co-founded The Society of Russian Dramatic Art and Opera Composers which dealt mostly with legal issues and provided financial support for the authors writing for theatre
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1869· 1 entry
Mad Money (Бешеные деньги), also translated as "Money to Burn") came out, reflecting the author's interest in (and wariness of, too) the new emerging class of capitalist entrepreneurs, 'practical people', as they have be
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1867· 1 entry
Stepan Gedeonov (the official who once helped him with The Sled) became the director of Imperial Theatres and in just six weeks Ostrovsky wrote Vasilisa Melentyeva, using Gedeonov's script
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1865· 2 entries
Accompanied again by Ivan Gorbunov, Ostrovsky made another trip down the Volga River
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Ostrovsky initiated the formation of the Artists' Circle, a club and an informal drama school
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1862· 1 entry
The Tsar showed his approval by presenting the author with a golden ring which rather upset Ostrovsky, who saw it as a scant reward for all the pains he had to go through with censors
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1861· 1 entry
Ostrovsky finished Whatever You Look for, You'll Find (За чем пойдёшь, то и найдёшь), the final part of the Balzaminov trilogy (praised among others by Dostoyevsky), and the historical drama in verse, Kozma Zakharyich Mi
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1860· 1 entry
Came out another play inspired by Ostrovsky's Volga voyage, The Storm, a tragic story of unhappily married Katerina, dominated by the motif of impending hurricane which never comes, the latter interpreted by Dobrolyubov
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1859· 2 entries
Nikolai Dobrolyubov (in his Realm of Darkness essay) remarked that many phrases he coined were being eagerly adopted by people and became folk sayings, part of common people talk
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Count Grigory Kushelev-Bezborodko published the first edition of The Works by A
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1858· 1 entry
Not of the Same Ilk (Не сошлись характерами), originally a novelette, came out
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1857· 1 entry
Celebratory Sleep Is That Before Dinner (Праздничный сон – до обеда) came out, the first part of the Balzamininov trilogy (parts two and three, Two Dogs Fight, the Third Keep Away and Whatever You Look for, You'll Find f
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1856· 1 entry
Grand Duke Konstantin offered several Russian writers an assignment to visit different Russian regions and provide authoritative accounts of both the industrial and everyday life there, originally with the view of gather
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1851· 1 entry
Ostrovsky made a decision to devote himself entirely to literature and theatre
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1847· 1 entry
Ostrovsky met Agafya Ivanovna, a lower middle-class 24-year-old woman who lived in the Yauza neighborhood, and became close to her
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1846· 1 entry
“s script. But the 3rd Department suspected some political subversion, Gedeonov failed to provide financial support and the project flopped. Back in 1846–1847 Ostrovsky”
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1845· 1 entry
His father had him transferred to the Moscow Commercial Court,
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1840· 1 entry
Ostrovsky graduated from the First Moscow Gymnasium and enrolled at Moscow University to study law
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1839· 1 entry
Received a title of nobility with corresponding privileges
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1834· 1 entry
Nikolay Fyodorovich sold the Monetchiki house and bought two new ones, on Zhitnaya street
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1823· 1 entry
Born 1823-03-31.
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