Prince Alexander Alexandrovich Shakhovskoy (Russian: Александр Александрович Шаховской; 5 May 1777, in Smolensk Governorate, Russian Empire – 3 February 1846, in Moscow, Russian Empire) was a Russian playwright, writer, poet, librettist, pedagogue, critic, memoirist and administrator (the head, in 1802–1826, of the Imperial Theatres); arguably the most influential figure in the Russian theatre in the early 19th century.[1]
Shakhovskoy, who debuted in 1795 with the comedy Zhenskaya shutka (Ladies' Joke) and enjoyed his first success with Novy Stern (The New Stern, 1805), wrote more than a hundred comedies and vaudevilles, as well as opera librettos and divertissements. Aristophanes (Аристофан, 1825) is considered to be his most accomplished work.[2] Shakhovskoy's way of lampooning in his plays revered figures, like Nikolai Karamzin and Vasily Zhukovsky (whom he became great friends with in the 1820s), was commented upon by one of his admirers, Alexander Pushkin in Evgeny Onegin ("...And there caustic Shakhovskoy / Let out his comedies' noisy swarm").[3]
Prince Shakhovskoy tutored (and was instrumental in their respective career development of) several leading Russian actors and actresses, including Vasily Karatygin, Alexandra Kolosova, Ekaterina Semyonova, Ivan Sosnitsky, Yakov Bryansky, Maria Varberkhova and Nikolai Dyur, among others.[4][1]
^ abRogov, Yu. (1990). "Шаховской, Александр Александрович". Russian Writers. Biobibliographical Dictionary. Prosveshchenye. Retrieved 13 January 2015.
^Gosenpud, А. А. Comedieas and Poems. Leningrad, 1961. Preface, p.7
^Там вывел колкий Шаховской / Своих комедий шумный рой
^Yartsov, A.A. The Life of Prince A.A. Shakhovskoy. Russky Arkhiv, 1896. – Vol. 1. – Issue No.3 – Pp. 351—360.
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