Aleksey Pisemsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Aleksey Pisemsky

Russian novelist and dramatist

Date of Birth: 11-Mar-1821

Place of Birth: Tshukhlomskoj County, Kostroma Governorate

Date of Death: 21-Jan-1881

Profession: writer, playwright, novelist

Zodiac Sign: Pisces

Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (Russian: ??????´? ???????´?????? ??´???????) (March 23 [O.S.
March 11] 1821 – February 2 [O.S.
January 21] 1881) was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with Sovremennik magazine in the early 1860s.
A realistic playwright, along with Aleksandr Ostrovsky he was responsible for the first dramatization of ordinary people in the history of Russian theatre.
"Pisemsky's great narrative gift and exceptionally strong grip on reality make him one of the best Russian novelists," according to D.S.
Mirsky.Pisemsky's first novel Boyarschina (1847, published 1858) was originally forbidden for its unflattering description of the Russian nobility.
His principal novels are The Simpleton (1850), One Thousand Souls (1858), which is considered his best work of the kind, and Troubled Seas, which gives a picture of the excited state of Russian society around the year 1862.
He also wrote plays, including A Bitter Fate (also translated as "A Hard Lot"), which depicts the dark side of the Russian peasantry.
The play has been called the first Russian realistic tragedy; it won the Uvarov Prize of the Russian Academy.



Alternative names	Russian: ???? ???????? ?????
Description	Russian-Ukrainian painter, sculptor and essayist
Date of birth/death	24 July 1844 (in Julian calendar)	29 September 1930
Location of birth/death	Chuhuiv	Repino
Work location	Saint Petersburg, Moscow, Chuhuiv
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