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- In 1859 Count Grigory Kushelyov-Bezborodko published the first edition of The Works by A. N. Ostrovsky in two volumes.
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In 1859 Count Grigory Kushelev-Bezborodko published the first edition of The Works by A.N. Ostrovsky in two volumes. Censored by none other than Ivan Goncharov (who helped to get the Family Affair into the collection), it inspired Nikolai Dobrolyubov to write the first of his two famous essays, hailing Ostrovsky as "a ray of light in the realm ...
- Entered Exclusive Academy
- Condemned by Government Officials
- Incorporated Folklore Elements Into Dramas
- Heralded For Satire
- Books
- Periodicals
Ostrovsky was the first of four children in the family, and his mother died when he was eight. At the age of 12, he entered the First Moscow Gymnasium, a prestigious academy that schooled boys from the city's more elite families. He spent five years there, and in 1840 enrolled at Moscow University to study law. Though he did well during his first y...
Ostrovsky went to work on a second play, Bankrut (The Bankrupt), which was published in the March 1850 edition of Moskvitianin (The Muscovite) to great acclaim. Its plot centers around a greedy merchant, Bashov, who makes a fraudulent bankruptcy application with the help of his clerk and a crooked lawyer. The accomplices actually do abscond with Ba...
Tsar Nicholas died in 1855, and theaters in Russia were closed for a six-month period of mourning. A year later, Ostrovsky became part of an expedition that explored the northern sources of the Volga River. This was an official project of the Marine Ministry, and Ostrovsky was expected to write about his experiences. The trip north would provide hi...
Na vsiakogo mudretsa dovol'no prostoty (Even a Wise Man Stumbles) returned him to familiar ground: the deceitful social striver. First produced at the Alexandrinsky Theatre, in St. Petersburg in 1868, it went on to a staging at the Maly Theatre where an enthusiastic opening night audience actually halted the performance midway through to call Ostro...
Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 277: Russian Literature in the Age of Realism. Alyssa Dinega Gillespie, ed., Gale, 2003. International Dictionary of Theatre, Volume 2: Playwrights, St. James Press, 1993.
Back Stage, March 9, 2001. Independent(London, England), January 27, 1999. New York Times, March 31, 1962. Sunday Times(London, England), October 18, 1992.
In 1859 Count Grigory Kushelyov-Bezborodko published the first edition of The Works by A. N. Ostrovsky in two volumes. His best-known play, The Storm (1859) was premiered on 16 November 1859.
May 23, 2018 · Ostrovsky's first published work, revised as It's a Family Affair—We'll Settle It Ourselves (1849) brought him to the attention of the publisher of the journal The Muscovite, and he became its editor in 1850. In his "Slavophile period" Ostrovsky set out to explore with a circle of friends what was good and unique about Russians.
In 1874, Ostrovsky became the first president of the Society of Russian Playwrights, and in 1885 he was named artistic director for the Moscow Imperial Theatres. Shortly after this, in 1886, he communicated a request to Tchaikovsky via an intermediary to provide music to accompany a scene in The Voyevoda — not the composer's first opera, but ...
A Family Affair was first produced in 1858; The Storm in 1859. A two-volume collection of his works was finally printed. The elimination of serfdom and the ensuing change from feudalism to entrepreneurialism in Russian society from 1861, provided new material for Ostrovsky.
Being the son of a government clerk, Ostrovsky attended the University of Moscow law school. From 1843 to 1848 he was employed as a clerk at the Moscow juvenile court. Ostrovsky wrote his first play, Kartiny semeynogo schastya (“Scenes of Family Happiness”), in 1847.
