Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Russian: Ð'ладимир
Иванович Ремирович-Ð"анченко; 23 December
[O.S. 11 December] 1858 â€" 25 April 1943, Moscow), was a Russian and
Soviet theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and
theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his
colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.Vladimir Ivanovich
Nemirovich-Danchenko was born into a Russian noble family of mixed
Ukrainian-Armenian descent, in the village of Shemokmedi near Ozurgeti
(Guria, Georgia). His father, Ivan Danchenko, was an officer in the
Imperial Russian army, and his mother, Alexandra Yagubyan
(1829â€"1914), was Armenian from the Governorate of Tiflis. He went to
high school in Tbilisi, continuing his education at Moscow State
University (physical-mathematical and juridical departments
1876â€"79).In 1879 he left the University for the theatre, starting as
a theatre critic, and in 1881, his first play "Dog-rose", which was
staged in one year by Maly Theatre, was published. He was a teacher of
Ivan Moskvin, Knipper and Meyerhold.
Иванович Ремирович-Ð"анченко; 23 December
[O.S. 11 December] 1858 â€" 25 April 1943, Moscow), was a Russian and
Soviet theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and
theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his
colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.Vladimir Ivanovich
Nemirovich-Danchenko was born into a Russian noble family of mixed
Ukrainian-Armenian descent, in the village of Shemokmedi near Ozurgeti
(Guria, Georgia). His father, Ivan Danchenko, was an officer in the
Imperial Russian army, and his mother, Alexandra Yagubyan
(1829â€"1914), was Armenian from the Governorate of Tiflis. He went to
high school in Tbilisi, continuing his education at Moscow State
University (physical-mathematical and juridical departments
1876â€"79).In 1879 he left the University for the theatre, starting as
a theatre critic, and in 1881, his first play "Dog-rose", which was
staged in one year by Maly Theatre, was published. He was a teacher of
Ivan Moskvin, Knipper and Meyerhold.
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