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Dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire

  • Denis FonvizinDenis Ivanovich Fonvizin entered the world in Moscow during 1745. He was born into a noble Russian Orthodox family as the first of eight children.
  • Leonid AndreyevLeonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was born in Oryol, Russia, to a middle-class family. His mother came from an old Polish aristocratic family that had fallen on…
  • Aleksey Konstantinovich TolstoyAleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy was born in Saint Petersburg to the famed family of Tolstoy. His parents, Count Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy and Anna…