Yakov Knyazhnin
Dramatist, Author
1742 – 1791
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Who was Yakov Knyazhnin?
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".
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- Born
- Nov 3, 1742
Pskov - Nationality
- Russia
- Profession
- Died
- Jan 1, 1791
Saint Petersburg
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on July 23, 2013
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