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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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  • play by Denis Fonvizin. Neil Cornwell Reference Guide to Russian Literature 2013 p305 1134260709 More successful in every way was Fonvizin's masterpiece...
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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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  • 1796. He was the younger brother of playwright Denis Fonvizin, and son of state councillor Ivan Fonvizin. Imperatorskiĭ Moskovskiĭ universitet, 1755-1917 :...
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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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    subjects. Denis Fonvizin, an author primarily of comedy, approached the subject of the Russian nobility with an angle of critique. Fonvizin felt the nobility...
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  • comedy writers who belonged to the upper class. The most renowned is Denis Fonvizin who produced several comedy plays between 1769 and 1792, most famously...
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    classical school of comedy, with principal antecedents in Molière. Like Denis Fonvizin before him and like the founders of the Russian realistic tradition...
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  • Ivan Fonvizin decided to merge the particle von with the core, thus giving a start to a new Russian family of German origin. His son, Denis Fonvizin (Russian:...
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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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    2009–2010 season program of Maly included plays by Russian authors from Denis Fonvizin to Mikhail Bulgakov, and a single play by Molière. The second stage...
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    was commissioned by the leaders of the local drama theater to direct Denis Fonvizin’s comedy "The Minor" for a high school program. Having decided to follow...
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    Zubov's character was capricious and unstable. He patronized Suvorov and Denis Fonvizin, and yet he is thought to have instigated the persecution of Alexander...
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  • footballer Denis Fonvizin (1745-1792), Russian writer and playwright Denis Foreman (1933-2016), South African cricketer and footballer Denis Forest (1960-2002)...
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    literature had grown in importance, with works from Mikhail Lomonosov, Denis Fonvizin, Gavrila Derzhavin, and Nikolay Karamzin. From the early 1830s, during...
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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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  • Tessler as Ferdinand I of the Two Sicilies Kuzma Saprykin as playwright Denis Fonvizin Semyon Lopatin as Ivan Bludov Sergey Barkovsky as Count / Graf Petr...
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  • her thoughts, but many times in her conversations open" Famous writer Denis Fonvizin ("..." I entered into close service with one prince, a young writer...
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  • of satirical practices in the 18th and 19th centuries. Writers like Denis Fonvizin, Nikolai Novikov, and Ivan Krylov are among the most well-known satirical...
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    Moscow University. His class fellows included Ippolit Bogdanovich, Denis Fonvizin, and Grigory Potemkin. It was Bulgakov who was sent to notify Augustus...
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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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    Denis Diderot (/ˈdiːdəroʊ/; French: [dəni did(ə)ʁo]; 5 October 1713 – 31 July 1784) was a French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving...
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    Prince of Kiev Mstislav Mstislavich, Prince of Novgorod and Galicia Denis Fonvizin, playwright Vladimir the Great, Grand Prince of Kiev Gediminas, Grand...
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    Russian Enlightenment, as Russian writers such as Gavrila Derzhavin, Denis Fonvizin, and Alexander Pushkin stressed degeneration of Catholic Poland and...
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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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    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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    academics Mikhail Lomonosov and Stepan Krasheninnikov; playwrights Denis Fonvizin and Yakov Knyazhnin; architects Ivan Starov, and Andrey Voronikhin;...
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  • considered to be a precursor of the symbolists, Shadows and Mystery Denis Fonvizin (1744–1792), dramatist, The Minor Olga Forsh (1873–1961), writer, dramatist...
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    Yefremov compiled, edited and published the series of The Works of: Denis Fonvizin (1866), Valerian Maykov (1867), Antiochus Kantemir (1867-1868), Vladimir...
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    Empire, national hero of Russia, Generalissimo of the Russian Empire. Denis Fonvizin (1745–1792), playwright of the Russian Enlightenment. Alexander Kurakin...
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