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Nadezhda Merder
Nadezhda Ivanovna Merder (russian: Надежда Ивановна Мердер, Svechina, Свечина, born 1839, — died 13 March 1906) was a Russian writer and playwright, better known under her pen name N. Severin (Н. Северин). Born to a retired military man belonging to an old Russian rural gentry family, she debuted in ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' with her 1877 short novel ''Out of Order'' (Не в порядке вещей) to be followed by numerous (in all, more than one hundred) novels, plays and novellas, which appeared originally in the magazines ''Delo'', '' Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye'', ''Vestnik Evropy'', ''Istorichesky Vestnik'', '' Niva''. Of the several plays she wrote for theatre, the best known was ''Happiness in Marriage'' (Супружеское счастье, 1884). Forgotten during the Soviet times, N. Severin's legacy was revived in 1990s after her Selected Works came out in 1997 via the Terra Publishers. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Literature
Russian literature refers to the literature of Russia and its émigrés and to Russian-language literature. The roots of Russian literature can be traced to the Middle Ages, when epics and chronicles in Old East Slavic were composed. By the Age of Enlightenment, literature had grown in importance, and from the early 1830s, Russian literature underwent an astounding golden age in poetry, prose and drama. Romanticism permitted a flowering of poetic talent: Vasily Zhukovsky and later his protégé Alexander Pushkin came to the fore. Prose was flourishing as well. Mikhail Lermontov was one of the most important poets and novelists. The first great Russian novelist was Nikolai Gogol. Then came Ivan Turgenev, who mastered both short stories and novels. Fyodor Dostoevsky and Leo Tolstoy soon became internationally renowned. Other important figures of Russian realism were Ivan Goncharov, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Nikolai Leskov. In the second half of the century Anton Chekhov excel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays. Etymology The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English term for a craftsman or builder (as in a wheelwright or cartwright). The words combine to indicate a person who has "wrought" words, themes, and other elements into a dramatic form—a play. (The homophone with "write" is coincidental.) The first recorded use of the term "playwright" is from 1605, 73 years before the first written record of the term "dramatist". It appears to have been first used in a pejorative sense by Ben Jonson to suggest a mere tradesman fashioning works for the theatre. Jonson uses the word in his Epigram 49, which is thought to refer to John Marston: :''Epigram XLIX — On Playwright'' :PLAYWRIGHT me reads, and still my verses damns, :He says I want the tongue of epigrams ; :I have no salt, no bawdry he doth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Otechestvennye Zapiski
''Otechestvennye Zapiski'' ( rus, Отечественные записки, p=ɐˈtʲetɕɪstvʲɪnːɨjɪ zɐˈpʲiskʲɪ, variously translated as "Annals of the Fatherland", "Patriotic Notes", "Notes of the Fatherland", etc.) was a Russian literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg on a monthly basis between 1818 and 1884. The journal served liberal-minded readers known as the ''intelligentsia''. Such major novels as Ivan Goncharov's '' Oblomov'' (1859), Fyodor Dostoyevsky's ''The Double'' (1846) and ''The Adolescent'' (1875) and Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin's '' The Golovlyov Family'' (1880) made their first appearance in ''Otechestvennye Zapiski''. Founded by Pavel Svinyin in 1818, the journal was published irregularly until 1820. It was closed down in 1830 but resurfaced several years later, with Andrey Krayevsky as its publisher. The renovated magazine regularly published articles by Vissarion Belinsky and Alexander Herzen, catering to well-educated liberals. Other n ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Delo (magazine)
''Delo'' (Дело, Labour) was a monthly magazine published in Saint Petersburg, Russia, from mid-1866 till January 1888. Led formally by Nikolai Shulgin (1866–1879) and informally by Grigory Blagosvetlov, ''Delo'' was seen as an ideological heir to ''Russkoye Slovo'' (edited by the latter and closed by the authorities after Dmitry Karakozov's assassination attempt) and until 1884 remained one of the two (alongside ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'') most radical Russian publications of the time. After the arrest of the magazine's editor Nikolai Shelgunov (in 1883) and his successor Konstantin Stanyukovich Konstantin Mikhaylovich Staniukovich or Stanyukovich (russian: Константин Михайлович Станюкович; March 30, 1843 – May 20, 1903) National Library of Australia"Library items by K. M. Staniukovich" was a Russian writer, ... a year later, the publication of ''Delo'' stopped. It re-emerged in 1885 as a conservative organ, with I.S. Durnovo as publisher and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye
''Zhivopisnoe obozrenie'' (russian: Живописное обозрение, Pictorial Review) was a Russian illustrated weekly magazine published in Saint Petersburg in 1872–1900 and in 1902–1905. The first issue of ''Zhivopisnoe obozrenie stran sveta'' (Foreign lands' pictorial review), as it was originally called, came out on 15 December 1872, edited by the cartographer scholar Nikita Zuev. As D.A. Karch-Karchevsky took over in 1875, the publication's title was shortened and it now featured literary section. In the years to follow the magazine's editors were Nikolai Shulgin (1880-1882), Pyotr Polevoy (1882-1885), Sergey Dobrodeyev (1885-1900), Pyotr Bykov, A.P. Nestor and Ignaty Potapenko (1902-1905). The original ''Review'', subtitled "Illustrated journal of travelling, expeditions, et cetera," featured mostly (translated, as well as original) articles on popular ethnography and geography, while focusing on high quality illustrations. In 1875 it cut the natural ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vestnik Evropy
''Vestnik Evropy'' (russian: Вестник Европы) (''Herald of Europe'' or ''Messenger of Europe'') was the major liberal magazine of late-nineteenth-century Russia. It was published from 1866 to 1918. The magazine (named for an earlier publication edited by Nikolay Karamzin) was founded by Mikhail Matveevich Stasyulevich, a former professor of history, who remained the publisher-editor until 1909; its editorial office "was located in Stasyulevich's flat at 20 Galernaya Street and was one of the centres of St. Petersburg's cultural and political life (the journal's major contributors as well as their friends and associates used to get together on Wednesdays)."Saint Petersburg Encyclopedia entry The first issue appeared in March 1866; for the first two years it was a his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Istorichesky Vestnik
''Istorichesky Vestnik'' (russian: Историческій Вѣстникъ, Исторический вестник, History Herald) was a Russian monthly historical and literary magazine published in Saint Petersburg in 1880-1917.Исторический вестник at the History The magazine was founded by the journalist and scholar Sergey Shubinsky and |
Niva (magazine)
''Niva'' (russian: Нива) (''Grainfield'') was the most popular magazine of late-nineteenth-century Russia; it lasted from 1870 to 1918, and defined itself on its masthead as "an illustrated weekly journal of literature, politics and modern life." ''Niva'' was the first of the "thin magazines," illustrated weeklies that "contrasted with the more serious and ideologically focused monthly 'thick journals' intended for the educated reader." History It was founded by A. F. Marx, a German immigrant who saw that Russia "lacked moderately priced magazines of general interest. He intended ''Niva'' to be a politically neutral family magazine, but the periodical soon outgrew its original purpose and became an ambitious vehicle for the dissemination of good literature in the provinces. It was read by an audience that extended from primary schoolteachers, rural parish priests, and the urban middle class to the gentry." One of its most popular features was the bonus premiums offered as an in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brockhaus And Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
The ''Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopaedic Dictionary'' ( Russian: Энциклопедический словарь Брокгауза и Ефрона, abbr. ЭСБЕ, tr. ; 35 volumes, small; 86 volumes, large) is a comprehensive multi-volume encyclopaedia in Russian. It contains 121,240 articles, 7,800 images, and 235 maps. It was published in Imperial Russia in 1890–1907, as a joint venture of Leipzig and St Petersburg publishers. The articles were written by the prominent Russian scholars of the period, such as Dmitri Mendeleev and Vladimir Solovyov. Reprints have appeared following the dissolution of the Soviet Union. History In 1889, the owner of one of the St. Petersburg printing houses, Ilya Abramovich Efron, at the initiative of Semyon Afanasyevich Vengerov, entered into an agreement with the German publishing house F. A. Brockhaus for the translation into Russian of the large German encyclopaedic dictionary ( de) into Russian as , published by the same publis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russian Women Writers
This is a list of women writers who were born in Russia or whose writings are closely associated with that country. A * Bella Akhmadulina (1937–2010), poet, short story writer, translator *Anna Akhmatova (1899–1966), acclaimed poet, author of ''Requiem'' * Elizaveta Akhmatova (1820–1904), "Leila" published a journal for 30 years with translations of English and French writers *Elena Akselrod (born 1932), Belarus-born Russian poet, translator * Ogdo Aksyonova (1936–1995), poet, short story writer, founder of Dolgan written literature *Margarita Aliger (1915–1992), poet, essayist, journalist * Svetlana Alliluyeva (1926–2011), daughter of Joseph Stalin, memoirist, biographer, author of ''Twenty Letters to a Friend'' *Al Altaev (1852–1959), writer for children *Tatyana Alyoshina (born 1961), singer-songwriter, poet, short story writer *Lou Andreas-Salomé (1861–1937), psychoanalyst, memoirist, literary essayist, novelist, often writing in German * Domna Anisimova (19t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1839 Births
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1906 Deaths
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