Alexander Ostrovsky
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Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period. The author of 47 original plays, Ostrovsky "almost single-h
Portrait by Vasily Perov, 1871
Moscow's First Gymnasium, where Ostrovsky studied
Konstantin Rybakov (as Bolshov) and Vladimir Maksheyev (as Rispolozhensky) in Ostrovsky's Family Affair. Maly Theatre, 1892
On 15 February 1856, the six Sovremennik authors (excluding Nekrasov who was unwell that day) visited the photographer Sergei Levitsky's studio to sit for a photograph session. Ostrovsky is far right.
Nikolai Berg
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Nikolai Vasilyevich Berg was a Russian poet, journalist, translator and historian.
