Yakov Knyazhnin
1740
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1791
photo credits: Wikimedia Commons
country of citizenship: Russian Empire
languages spoken, written or signed: Russian
occupation: linguist, poet, librettist, writer, playwright, translator
Yakov Borisovich Knyazhnin (Russian: Я́ков Бори́сович Княжни́н, November 3, 1742 or 1740, Pskov – January 1, 1791, St Petersburg) 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". Source: Wikipedia (en)
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