Curated category
Russian male dramatists and playwrights
- 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 BlokAlexander Blok was born in Saint Petersburg on the 7th of August 1880. He grew up within an intellectual family that included a law professor and a famous…
- Vladimir NabokovVladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov entered the world on the 22nd of April 1899 in Saint Petersburg. His family belonged to an ancient Russian nobility granted a…
- 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…
- Mikhail BulgakovMikhail Bulgakov was born on the 15th of May 1891 in Kiev, then part of the Russian Empire. He grew up at 28 Vozdvishenskaya Street as the oldest of seven…
- Vladimir MayakovskyVladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky was born in 1893 in Baghdati, Kutais Governorate, Georgia. His father worked as a local forester while his mother managed…
- 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.
- 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…
- 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…
- Sergey MikhalkovSergey Vladimirovich Mikhalkov entered the world on the 27th of August 1913 within a noble family in Moscow. His father was Vladimir Aleksandrovich Mikhalkov…