Yakov Knyazhnin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Yakov Knyazhnin

Russian playwright

Date of Birth: 03-Oct-1740

Place of Birth: Pskov, Pskov Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 14-Jan-1791

Profession: writer, poet, playwright, translator, librettist, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Yakov Borisovich Knyazhnin (Russian: ?´??? ????´????? ??????´?, November 3, 1742 or 1740, Pskov – January 1, 1791, St Petersburg) was Russia's foremost tragic author during the reign of Catherine the Great.
Knyazhnin's contemporaries hailed him as the true successor to his father-in-law Alexander Sumarokov, but posterity, in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, tended to view his tragedies and comedies as "awkwardly imitated from more or less worthless French models".