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George Hüfner
George Hüfner (also known as Yuri Mikhailovich Givner and Yuri Gibner; – 1691) was a German-born teacher who lived in the German Quarter of Moscow and acted as a translator for the . In 1675, he was the director of the court theater for Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich. Hüfner is credited as the director and possibly the author of one of the earliest Russian plays, the Temir-Aksakov plot (comedy about Timur, Tamerlane and Bayezid I, Bayezid). Researchers have identified features in Givner's plays that reflect elements of 17th-century England, English comedy, Western Russian , Middle Ages, medieval miracles, and even court ceremonies. He used historical narratives rather than the Bible as a source for his dramatic works, unlike his predecessor, Pastor Gregory, Johann Gorrfried, Gregory. ''Temir-Aksakov's Action'' described the struggle between the Soviet Central Asia, Central Asian Emir Timur (Tamerlane) and the List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire, Ottoman Sultan Bayezid Lightning, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
German Quarter
The German Quarter (), also known as the Kukuy Quarter (), was a neighbourhood in the northeast of Moscow, located on the right bank of the Yauza River east of the former Kukuy Creek (hence the name Kukuy Quarter), within the present-day Basmanny District of Moscow. Its boundaries were defined by present-day Dobroslobodskaya Street and Bolshoy Demidovsky Lane (west, following the track of Kukuy creek), Spartakovskaya Street (north), and the Yauza River (south and east). Kukuy formed a wide pond west of present-day Elizavetinsky lane, on the site of the present-day Sokol stadium of Moscow State Technical University, which occupies the southern half of a former German settlement. Old German Quarter "German" Quarters developed in Moscow in the 16th century and were populated by foreigners from Western Europe (collectively called "Germans" by the Russian people (the Russian word for "German", , relates to the Russian word for "mute", ]) and by prisoners taken during the Livonian Wa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
