Pyotr Ivanovich Zubrov (; 1822, in

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. Having debuted on stage in 1851, he achieved his first success as Gordey Tortsov in

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'', and since then excelled in many of the latter's plays' productions, as well as the works by

Alexey Pisemsky Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky () () was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with ''Sovre ...

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A Bitter Fate ''A Bitter Fate'' (, ), also translated as ''A Bitter Lot'', is an 1859 realistic play by Aleksey Pisemsky.Banham (1998, 861) and Moser (1992, 273). It is a story of a peasant woman, who, while her husband was away for quitrent works, had been se ...

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Nikolai Gogol Nikolai Vasilyevich Gogol; ; (; () was a Russian novelist, short story writer, and playwright of Ukrainian origin. Gogol used the Grotesque#In literature, grotesque in his writings, for example, in his works "The Nose (Gogol short story), ...

(Gorodnichy in ''

Revizor ''The Government Inspector'', also known as ''The Inspector General'' (, literally: "Inspector"), is a satirical play by Russian dramatist and novelist Nikolai Gogol. Originally published in 1836, the play was revised for an 1842 edition. Based ...

''). Zubrov translated several plays into Russian and authored two original vaudevilles, ''The Deaf One Is to Blame'' (Глухой всему виной) and ''Honestly'' (Честное слово).Пётр Иванович Зубров
at the New Russian Biographical Dictionary

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