Aleksander Ivanovich Pisarev (Russian: Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ð½Ð´Ñ€
Иванович ÐŸÐ¸Ñ Ð°Ñ€ÐµÐ², 14 July 1803, village Znamenskoye,
Oryol Governorate, Imperial Russia, - 15 March 1828, Moscow) was a
Russian playwright, translator and theatre critic.[1]In the course of
just five years (1824â€"28) he authored 23 popular vaudevilles and
comedies, most of which enjoyed great success on stage Moscow's Maly
Theatre and St. Petersburg's Alexandrinka. His best known plays were
Student and Teacher (Учитель и ученик, или Ð'
чужом пиру похмелье, 1824), The Magic Nose
(Ð'олшебный Ð½Ð¾Ñ , или Ð¢Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ñ Ð¼Ð°Ð½ и финики,
1825), Caliph's Recreations (Забавы калифа, 1825, set to
music by Alexander Alyabyev and Alexey Verstovsky), The Buzzing Man
(Хлопотун, или Ð"ело Ð¼Ð°Ñ Ñ‚ÐµÑ€Ð° Ð±Ð¾Ð¸Ñ‚Ñ Ñ , 1825,
music by Alyabyev and Verstovsky), How To Marry Your Daughter
(Ð¡Ñ€ÐµÐ´Ñ Ñ‚Ð²Ð¾ выдавать дочерей замуж, 1828).
In 1826 with Alexey Verstovsky he published the popular Drama Album
for the Lovers of Music and Theatre (Ð"Ñ€Ð°Ð¼Ð°Ñ‚Ð¸Ñ‡ÐµÑ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹
альбом Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð»ÑŽÐ±Ð¸Ñ‚ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ¹ театра и музыки).
Pisarev was a controversial figure who, on the one hand used to pan
'serious' drama (stating that theatre's mission was to entertain, not
moralize) and lambast Pyotr Vyazemsky and Alexander Griboyedov, on the
other, was himself a shrewd satirist who ridiculed in his plays and
epigrams the life and manners of Russian high society as well as some
of his literary contemporaries, notably Nikolai Polevoy.[2]Pisarev
died of tuberculosis aged only 24, much to the distress of his
friends, one of whom, Sergey Aksakov was convinced that in 1828
Russian literature lost one of its greatest talents who had every
potential to become the 'Russian Aristophanes'. "All of our
vaudevillians of today count less than this one man, Pisarev," wrote
Vissarion Belinsky years later.[3]
Иванович ÐŸÐ¸Ñ Ð°Ñ€ÐµÐ², 14 July 1803, village Znamenskoye,
Oryol Governorate, Imperial Russia, - 15 March 1828, Moscow) was a
Russian playwright, translator and theatre critic.[1]In the course of
just five years (1824â€"28) he authored 23 popular vaudevilles and
comedies, most of which enjoyed great success on stage Moscow's Maly
Theatre and St. Petersburg's Alexandrinka. His best known plays were
Student and Teacher (Учитель и ученик, или Ð'
чужом пиру похмелье, 1824), The Magic Nose
(Ð'олшебный Ð½Ð¾Ñ , или Ð¢Ð°Ð»Ð¸Ñ Ð¼Ð°Ð½ и финики,
1825), Caliph's Recreations (Забавы калифа, 1825, set to
music by Alexander Alyabyev and Alexey Verstovsky), The Buzzing Man
(Хлопотун, или Ð"ело Ð¼Ð°Ñ Ñ‚ÐµÑ€Ð° Ð±Ð¾Ð¸Ñ‚Ñ Ñ , 1825,
music by Alyabyev and Verstovsky), How To Marry Your Daughter
(Ð¡Ñ€ÐµÐ´Ñ Ñ‚Ð²Ð¾ выдавать дочерей замуж, 1828).
In 1826 with Alexey Verstovsky he published the popular Drama Album
for the Lovers of Music and Theatre (Ð"Ñ€Ð°Ð¼Ð°Ñ‚Ð¸Ñ‡ÐµÑ ÐºÐ¸Ð¹
альбом Ð´Ð»Ñ Ð»ÑŽÐ±Ð¸Ñ‚ÐµÐ»ÐµÐ¹ театра и музыки).
Pisarev was a controversial figure who, on the one hand used to pan
'serious' drama (stating that theatre's mission was to entertain, not
moralize) and lambast Pyotr Vyazemsky and Alexander Griboyedov, on the
other, was himself a shrewd satirist who ridiculed in his plays and
epigrams the life and manners of Russian high society as well as some
of his literary contemporaries, notably Nikolai Polevoy.[2]Pisarev
died of tuberculosis aged only 24, much to the distress of his
friends, one of whom, Sergey Aksakov was convinced that in 1828
Russian literature lost one of its greatest talents who had every
potential to become the 'Russian Aristophanes'. "All of our
vaudevillians of today count less than this one man, Pisarev," wrote
Vissarion Belinsky years later.[3]
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