# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/yakov-knyazhnin
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:40:09.418Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/yakov-knyazhnin"
name: "Yakov Knyazhnin"
slug: "yakov-knyazhnin"
description: "Yakov Borisovich Knyazhnin 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\"."
tagline: "Russian playwright"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/YaB_Knyazhnin.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
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  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1740-10-03"
deathDate: "1791-01-14"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             15.67510548523207
  historical:           11.218216
  currentAttention:     5.720000000000001
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump