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Occupation
  
Dramatist • Poet

Role
  
Dramatist

Name
  
Lev Mei


Signature
  
Nationality
  
Russian

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Born
  
Lev Aleksandrovich Mei25 February 1822Moscow (
1822-02-25
)

Died
  
May 28, 1862, Saint Petersburg, Russia

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Lev Aleksandrovich Mei (Russian: Лев Алекса́ндрович Мей; 25 February [O.S. 13 February] 1822 – 28 May [O.S. 16 May] 1862) was a Russian dramatist and poet.

Biography

Mei was born on 13/25 February 1822, in Moscow. His father was a German officer who was wounded in the Battle of Borodino and died young. His mother was Russian. Mei completed his studies in Moscow in 1841 and served in the office of the Governor for 10 years. He became part of the "young editorial staff" of Mikhail Pogodin's Moskvityanin. For a time, he taught secondary school, but was forced to retire because of conflicts with his colleagues. He moved to Saint Petersburg, where he was active in literary endeavors. It was during this period that he contributed to the leading Russian magazines, including Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya, Otechestvennye Zapiski, Syn Otechestva, Russkoye Slovo, Russky Mir, and Svetoch.

Mei wrote the historical dramas, The Tsar's Bride (1849) , Servilia (1854) and The Maid of Pskov (1859), all three of which the composer Rimsky-Korsakov later used as the basis for operas.

Mei lived a dissipated and bohemian life, with a great fondness for drink, which led to his untimely death on 16/28 May 1862.

References

Lev Mei Wikipedia


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