Fyodor Kumanin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Date of Birth: 21-Jan-1855
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Date of Death: 24-Apr-1896
Profession: playwright, translator, publisher, theatre critic
Zodiac Sign: Aquarius 
About Fyodor Kumanin
- Fyodor Alexandrovich Kumanin (Russian: ????? ????????????? ???????, 6 February 1855, Moscow, Imperial Russia, — 6 May 1896, Moscow) was a Russian publisher, theatre critic and translator. He is best remembered as the founder, publisher and editor-in-chief of The Artist magazine (1889—1894) as well as the supplement to it, called Dnevnik Artista (Artist's Diary, 1891—1893).
- He launched three more journals, Teatral (Theatre-goer, 1895), Teatralnaya Biblioteka (Theatre Library, 1891—1895) and Chitatel (Reader, 1896), which he also edited and regularly published his own critical essays and reviews in.Kumanin translated numerous foreign language plays.
- Four of them, by Hermann Sudermann (Sodoms Ende, Die Ehre Honour, Die Schmetterlingsschlacht and Das Gluck im Winkel) enjoyed long-lasting success on stage the Imperial as well as provincial Russian theatres.
- He co-authored, with the poet Olga Chyumina, one original play, a comedy called Zhorzhinka (????????).According to the modern literary historian Irina Mustafina, Kumanin was "a rare type of a passionate zealot of culture" who's managed to launch a host of publications on theatre in the years when art journalism in Russia was in deep crisis.
- Ivan Shcheglov, though, had 'difficult' relationship with Kumanin, as well as Anton Chekhov.
- In January 1894 The Artist published Chekhov's novella The Black Monk, the occasion which resulted in a raw between Kumanin and the author.
- What exactly caused it remained unknown, although some evidence points at Chekhov's having accused the editor in violating his copyright, which outraged the latter.
- When Chekhov asked for galley proofs of the story, Kumanin refused to comply, in a rude manner.
- Later he made several attempts at restoring the relation with the Chekhov, who ignored his approaches.
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