Aleksey Pisemsky
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Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky (Russian: Алексе́й Феофила́ктович Пи́семский) (23 March [O.S. 11 March] 1821 – 2 February [O.S. 21 January] 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.[1][need quotation to verify] "Pisemsky's great narrative gift and exceptionally strong grip on reality make him one of the best Russian novelists" according to D.S. Mirsky.[2]
Aleksey Pisemsky | |
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Born | (1821-03-23)23 March 1821 Kostroma Governorate, Russian Empire |
Died | 2 February 1881(1881-02-02) (aged 59) Moscow, Russian Empire |
Occupation | Novelist • Playwright |
Genre | Novel, short story |
Literary movement | Realism |
Notable works | One Thousand Souls (1858) A Bitter Fate (1859) An Old Man's Sin (1862) Troubled Seas (1863) |
Notable awards | Uvarov Prize of the Russian Academy |
Spouse | Yekaterina Pavlovna Svinyina |
Children | 2 |
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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 [ru] (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.[3] He also wrote plays, including A Bitter Fate (1859; 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.[1]