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Alexander Ostrovsky is considered one of the most important Russian playwrights of the 19th century, credited with bringing dramatic realism to the Russian theatre stage.
- 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.
Dec 3, 2021 · Alexander Ostrovsky — ‘To pronounce something clever and honest is not such a big deal, lots of them have been said and written. For a statement of truth...
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The major Ostrovsky play that is perhaps best known in Russia is ‘The Storm’ (1859). It is one of the first works to raise the theme of the oppressed status of women.
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian dramatist who is generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The son of a government clerk, Ostrovsky attended the University of Moscow law school.
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Ostrovsky's frank depictions of the social problems resulting from the autocratic and patriarchal features of Russian culture provoked frequent censorship of his works.
