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Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was a Russian playwright, generally considered the greatest representative of the Russian realistic period.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Alexander Ostrovsky was documented, and when
12 April 1823exact date
Zamoskvorechyeattested“Alexander Nikolayevich Ostrovsky was born on 12 April 1823, in the Zamoskvorechye region of Moscow, to Nikolai Fyodorovich Ostrovsky, a lawyer who had received a seminary education.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1840year
Moscowattested“In 1840 Ostrovsky graduated from the First Moscow Gymnasium and enrolled at Moscow University to study law.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1840year
Moscow Universityattested“In 1840 Ostrovsky graduated from the First Moscow Gymnasium and enrolled at Moscow University to study law.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1847year
Yauza Riverattested“In 1847 Ostrovsky met Agafya Ivanovna, a lower middle-class 24-year-old woman who lived in the Yauza neighborhood, and became close to her.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1862year
Germanyattested“In the spring of 1862 Ostrovsky visited Germany, Austria, Italy, France and England, and returned with the acute feeling of the contrast between the two different time planes that Russia and Europe were living on.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
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1845year
Moscowmentioned“In 1845 his father had him transferred to the Moscow Commercial Court, which specialised mostly in cases related to bribery and corruption.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1846 to 1847period
Kostroma Governoratementioned“Back in 1846–1847 Ostrovsky's father purchased four estates, the largest of which was Schelykovo in the Kostroma Governorate, the 18th-century mansion built by captain Mikhail Kutuzov.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1852year
Maly Theatre (Moscow)mentioned“The melodramatic Stay in Your Own Sled (Не в свои сани не садись, 1852), less daring than Family Affair and not as ambitious as The Poor Bride, was published in Moskvityanin and became the first Ostrovsky's play to make it on to the Maly…”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
February 1853month
Saint Petersburgmentioned“In the early February 1853 Ostrovsky went to Saint Petersburg for the first time where he was warmly received by Alexander Gedeonov, the director of the Imperial Theatres.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1855 to 1856period
Francementioned“1855 and 1856 were the years when the once famous Ostrovsky's circle disbanded with Tertiy Filippov joining the pro-Slavophile Russkaya Beseda and Apollon Grigoriev departing to France.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1855year
Saint Petersburgmentioned“Nikolai Nekrasov's team has long been discussing the prospects of tempting Ostrovsky from Moskvityanin over to Sovremennik, and in late 1855 he made a trip to Saint Petersburg to spend most of his time with the authors of that magazine,…”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
9 January 1856exact date
Moscowmentioned“The play was premiered in Moscow on 9 January 1856, with Prov Sadovsky as Tit Titych and had massive success.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1857year
Rybinskmentioned“Despite urges from Ivan Panaev to start writing, he returned to Upper Volga in the spring of 1857 and resumed his journey, visiting Rybinsk, Uglich and Nizhny Novgorod in the summer.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1857year
Upper Volgamentioned“Despite urges from Ivan Panaev to start writing, he returned to Upper Volga in the spring of 1857 and resumed his journey, visiting Rybinsk, Uglich and Nizhny Novgorod in the summer.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1858 to 1859period
Saint Petersburgmentioned“By far more significant was his next one, A Protégée of the Mistress (Воспитанница, 1859), continuing the 'degradation of the nobility' theme and written during his three weeks' visit to Saint Petersburg in 1858.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1860year
Odessamentioned“In the spring of 1860 Martynov, terminally ill with tuberculosis, ventured on a trip down to Odessa and Ostrovsky agreed to follow him as a companion.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
August 1862month
Russiamentioned“In August 1862 he returned to Russia full of new ideas and by the end of the year finished Sin and Sorrow Are Common to All (Грех да беда на кого не живёт).”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1869year
Moscowmentioned“It was followed by The Ardent Heart (Горячее сердце, 1869), part detective fiction, part naive fairytale, part modern pamphlet aimed at the Moscow traders buying huge plots of land from aristocrats.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
1871year
Vologdamentioned“Occasionally the publication preceded the premiere: such was the case with The Forest (Лес, 1871), the story of actors travelling from Vologda to Kerch which satirised the backwardness of the Russian province of the time.”source: Wikipedia: Alexander Ostrovsky
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