Pyotr Andreyevich Karatygin (Russian: ПÑ'Ñ‚Ñ€ Рндреевич
Каратыгин, 11 July 1805, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, -
6 October 1879, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian
dramatist and actor. The tragic Vasily Karatygin (1802-1853) was his
brother.Karatygin debuted on stage in 1823 and rose to fame performing
in Alexander Griboyedov's Woe from Wit (the parts of Zagoretsky,
Repetilov and, since 1831, Chatsky). In 1832â€"1838, as a head of the
Drama department in the Saint Petersburg's Theatre College, he
discovered and tutored several of the future Russian stage stars,
including Alexander Martynov [ru].Pyotr Karatygin wrote 68 plays, 53
of them vaudevilles, mostly elaborate variations on foreign plays and
Russian novels. In the 1860s and 1870s he wrote a series of short
memoirs on the history of the Russian theatre. Edited and previewed by
his son, Pyotr Karatygin's Notes were serialized by Russkaya Starina
in 1872â€"1879, to much critical acclaim.
Каратыгин, 11 July 1805, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, -
6 October 1879, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian
dramatist and actor. The tragic Vasily Karatygin (1802-1853) was his
brother.Karatygin debuted on stage in 1823 and rose to fame performing
in Alexander Griboyedov's Woe from Wit (the parts of Zagoretsky,
Repetilov and, since 1831, Chatsky). In 1832â€"1838, as a head of the
Drama department in the Saint Petersburg's Theatre College, he
discovered and tutored several of the future Russian stage stars,
including Alexander Martynov [ru].Pyotr Karatygin wrote 68 plays, 53
of them vaudevilles, mostly elaborate variations on foreign plays and
Russian novels. In the 1860s and 1870s he wrote a series of short
memoirs on the history of the Russian theatre. Edited and previewed by
his son, Pyotr Karatygin's Notes were serialized by Russkaya Starina
in 1872â€"1879, to much critical acclaim.
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