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Denis Fonvizin
Denis Fonvizin; portrait by O. V. Martynenko
BornDenis Ivanovich Fonvizin
(1745-04-14)14 April 1745
Moscow, Russian Empire
Died12 December 1792(1792-12-12) (aged 47)
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Resting placeLazarevskoe Cemetery, Saint Petersburg
OccupationWriter, playwright, translator
NationalityRussian
Alma materImperial Moscow University
SpouseEkaterina Ivanovna Rogovikova (1774–1792)

Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (Russian: Денис Иванович Фонвизин, IPA: [dʲɪˈnʲis ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ fɐnˈvʲizʲɪn]; 14 April [O.S. 3 April] 1745 – 12 December [O.S. 1 December] 1792) was a playwright and writer of the Russian Enlightenment, one of the founders of literary comedy in Russia. His main works are two satirical comedies—including Young ignoramus, which mocks contemporary Russian gentry—and are still staged today.

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Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (Russian: Денис Иванович Фонвизин, IPA: [dʲɪˈnʲis ɪˈvanəvʲɪtɕ fɐnˈvʲizʲɪn]; 14 April [O.S. 3 April] 1745 – 12 December [O.S. 1...

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State Councillor in the Russian Empire. He was the father of playwright Denis Fonvizin. Ward, Charles Alexander (1989). Moscow and Leningrad: Writers, painters...

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was altered irrevocably. Russia's place in the world was debated by Denis Fonvizin, Mikhail Shcherbatov, Andrey Bolotov, Alexander Radishchev, and Ivan...

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List of Penguin Classics

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Barthelme Four Comedies by Carlo Goldoni Four Russian Plays (The Infant by Denis Fonvizin, Chatsky by Alexander Griboyedov, The Inspector General by Nikolai Gogol...

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influences that inspired the Russian Enlightenment. Gavrila Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin and Ippolit Bogdanovich laid the groundwork for the great writers of...

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maintained an interest in science, patronizing Mikhail Lomonosov and Denis Fonvizin, and corresponding with Jean Jacques Rousseau. He was one of the founders...

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and jurist. Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle 1657–1757 French Author. Denis Fonvizin 1744–1792 Russian Writer and playwright. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia...

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anonymously. Some of the articles are attributed to Novikov himself and Denis Fonvizin. Guest "columnists" also included Alexander Oblesimov, Vasili Maykov...

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Lazarevskoe Cemetery

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academics Mikhail Lomonosov and Stepan Krasheninnikov; playwrights Denis Fonvizin and Yakov Knyazhnin; architects Ivan Starov, and Andrey Voronikhin;...

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Culture of Russia

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(Lieutenant-Colonel) Alexander Ivanovich Fonvizin (1749—1819) and his wife, Ekaterina (1750—1823). Denis Fonvizin, the noted playwright and author, was his...

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