Curated category
19th-century dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire
- Anton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was born on the 29th of January 1860 in Taganrag, a commercial port city on the Sea of Azov. He lived at Politseyskaya street, which…
- Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy spent the last hours of his life on a train, preaching love, non-violence, and Georgism to fellow passengers, before pneumonia stopped him at a…
- Nikolai GogolIn 1820, a fifteen-year-old boy named Nikolai Gogol entered the School of Higher Art in Nezhin. His classmates gave him a nickname that stuck: mysterious…
- Alexander PushkinAlexander Sergeyevich Pushkin was born into the Russian nobility in Moscow. His father, Sergey Lvovich Pushkin, belonged to an old noble family that traced…
- Ivan TurgenevIvan Sergeyevich Turgenev entered the world in Oryol, Russia, during 1818. His father Sergei Nikolaevich Turgenev served as a colonel in the Russian cavalry…
- Maxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov adopted the pseudonym Maxim Gorky in 1892. The name meant bitter, reflecting his simmering anger about life in Russia and a…
- Ivan KrylovIvan Andreyevich Krylov was born on the 13th of February 1769 in Moscow. He spent his early years in Orenburg and Tver before moving to St.
- Nikolai LeskovNikolai Semyonovich Leskov was born on the 4th of February 1831 in the village of Gorokhovo, Oryol Gubernia. His father Semyon Dmitrievich worked as a…
- Mikhail Saltykov-ShchedrinMikhail Yevgrafovich Saltykov was born on the 27th of January 1826 in the village of Spas-Ugol. He entered the world as one of eight children within a large…
- Nikolay NekrasovIn January 1823 Alexey Nekrasov retired from the army and moved his family to an estate in Greshnevo, Yaroslavl province.