Yakov Borisovich Knyazhnin was Russia's foremost tragic author during the reign of Catherine the Great.
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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".
Category
Writers
Type
Writer / Author
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1740 to 1791 · aged 50
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