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Alexander Sumarokov
Portrait by Anton Losenko
Born25 November 1717
Lappeenranta, Sweden
Died12 October 1777(1777-10-12) (aged 59)
Moscow, Russia
ChildrenEkaterina

Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Сумаро́ков; 25 November 1717 [O.S. 14 November], Moscow – 12 October 1777 [O.S. 1 October]) was a Russian poet and playwright who single-handedly created classical theatre in Russia, thus assisting Mikhail Lomonosov to inaugurate the reign of classicism in Russian literature.

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Alexander Sumarokov

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Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov (Russian: Алекса́ндр Петро́вич Сумаро́ков; 25 November 1717 [O.S. 14 November], Moscow – 12 October 1777 [O.S. 1 October])...

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Sumarokov

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Sumarokov (Russian: Сумароков) is a Russian masculine surname, its feminine counterpart is Sumarokova. It may refer to Alexander Sumarokov (1717–1777)...

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Russian humour

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include Antiochus Kantemir who wrote satirical poems and a dramatist Alexander Sumarokov whose plays varied from a straight-up satire against his enemies...

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Russian literature

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rival to Trediakovsky, Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov, 1717–1777, was dedicated to the styles of French classicism. Sumarokov's interest in the form of...

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The Old Man and his Sons

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Aesop's fables in the 19th century. It was also the perception of Alexander Sumarokov, whose variant of the fable explains the weakness of the Russian...

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1717 in literature

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mathematician and encyclopedist (died 1783) November 25 (November 14 OS) – Alexander Sumarokov, Russian dramatist (died 1777) December 9 – Johann Joachim Winckelmann...

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Russian opera

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was Araja’s Tsefal i Prokris (Cephalus and Prokris, libretto by Alexander Sumarokov) that was staged at Saint Petersburg on 7 March, [OS 27 February]...

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Aleksandr Domogarov

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2008), was killed in an accident The second wife - Irina Gunenkova Son Alexander Domogarov Jr., director and actor, was born on February 7, 1989 Married...

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Hamlet

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since played him as a breeches role, to great acclaim. In 1748, Alexander Sumarokov wrote a Russian adaptation that focused on Prince Hamlet as the embodiment...

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Gavrila Derzhavin

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opportunities for the students to perform tragedies by Molière and Alexander Sumarokov. Derzhavin eventually excelled in geometry and was informed he would...

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Sonnet

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westernizing reforms of Peter the Great, Russian poets (among others Alexander Sumarokov and Mikhail Kheraskov) began to experiment with sonnets, but the...

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Sergey Aksakov

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especially fond of Mikhail Kheraskov's Rossiada and the tragedies of Alexander Sumarokov. He was educated at the Kazan Gymnasium and then, in 1805 (in the...

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Alexander Ablesimov

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poet, dramatist, satirist, and journalist. Worked as copyist for Alexander Sumarokov. Published his fables and satirical poems. Wrote the libretto for...

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List of intellectuals of the Enlightenment

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n.d. Web. 17 Nov. 2014. Israel, Radical Enlightenment, 794 Altmann, Alexander. Moses Mendelssohn: A Biographical Study. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama...

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Reputation of William Shakespeare

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of themselves. Shakespeare was first translated into Russian by Alexander Sumarokov, who called Shakespeare an "inspired barbarian", who wrote of the...

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Ivan Yelagin

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studied in the cadet corps for nobles with Mikhail Kheraskov and Alexander Sumarokov, a popular playwright whose works he alternately praised and derided...

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1777 in Russia

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imperial mistress Karl Wilhelm von Toll, Russian military leader Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet "Pavlovsk | Imperial Palace, Park, Catherine II | Britannica"...

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Anton Losenko

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there was the Portrait of Ivan Shuvalov (1760) and the Portrait of Alexander Sumarokov (1760). In 1760, the Academy sent him to Paris to study art under...

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1717

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Guenée, French priest and Christian apologist (d. 1803) November 25 – Alexander Sumarokov, Russian poet and playwright (d. 1777) December 9 – Johann Joachim...

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1748 in literature

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Chūshingura (仮名手本忠臣蔵, original version for bunraku puppet theatre) Alexander Sumarokov – Gamlet: Tragediya (adapted from Shakespeare's Hamlet) Mark Akenside...

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1749 in literature

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(musical, with music by William Boyce) Tobias Smollett – The Regicide Alexander Sumarokov – Khorev James Thomson – Coriolanus Voltaire – Nanine William Collins...

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Tsefal i Prokris

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Russian language. Araja composed the opera to a Russian libretto by Alexander Sumarokov after the Metamorphoses of Ovid. It was staged at St. Petersburg...

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1771 in literature

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The Maid of Bath Hugh Kelly – Clementina George Alexander Stevens – The Fair Orphan Alexander Sumarokov – Dmitri the Usurper James Beattie – The Minstrel...

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Russian science fiction and fantasy

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speculative fiction. The first utopia in Russian was a short story by Alexander Sumarokov, "A Dream of Happy Society" (1759). Two early utopias in form of...

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List of Russian people

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tragedy Alexander Pushkin, Russia's national poet, also known for his plays, including Boris Godunov and The Stone Guest Alexander Sumarokov, poet and...

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Donskoy Monastery

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sculptors. They mark the graves of the poets Mikhail Kheraskov and Alexander Sumarokov, the philosophers Pyotr Chaadaev and Ivan Ilyin, the historians Mikhail...

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Felix Yusupov

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Prince Felix Felixovich Yusupov, Count Sumarokov-Elston (Russian: Князь Фе́ликс Фе́ликсович Юсу́пов, Граф Сумаро́ков-Эльстон; 24 March [O.S. 11 March] 1887...

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