Alexander Ostrovsky
Russian playwright (1823-1886) · Russia · On the map · Writers · Died at 63
Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost single-handedly created a Russian national repertoire."
Alexander Ostrovsky is read about 498 times a day, in 52 languages.
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Moscow's First Gymnasium, where Ostrovsky studied
Konstantin Rybakov (as Bolshov) and Vladimir Maksheyev (as Rispolozhensky) in Ostrovsky's Family Affair. Maly Theatre, 1892
On 15 February 1856, the six Sovremennik authors (excluding Nekrasov who was unwell that day) visited the photographer Sergei Levitsky's studio to sit for a photograph session. Ostrovsky is far right.
Portrait of Ostrovsky by Sergei Levitsky, 1856
Ostrovsky's Schelykovo house, now a museum
Konstantin Stanislavski and Vasily Kachalov in the Moscow Art Theatre production of Enough Stupidity in Every Wise Man, 1910.
M. Sadovsky and N. Rybakov in The Forest, 1872About this person
His dramas are among the most widely read and frequently performed stage pieces in Russia.
Country
Russia
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
Deceased
Dates
Lived 1823 to 1886 · aged 63
