Ivan Chemnitzer
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Ivan Ivanovitch Chemnitzer or Khemnitzer was a Russian fabulist of German descent.
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Alexander Sumarokov
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Alexander Petrovich Sumarokov 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 Russi
Ivan Chemnitzer
…and France. Upon his return he accepted a position as Consul to Smyrna, where an attack of melancholia hastened his death. In contradistinction to Sumarokov and others among the earlier fabulists of Russia, whose works are essentially satires, Chemnitzer was the first to introduce the genuine fable into…
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