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Nationality
  
Russian, Ukrainian

Name
  
Pyotr Gnedich

Role
  
Writer


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Born
  
30 October 1855Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (
1855-10-30
)

Genre
  
fiction, poetry, memoirs

Died
  
July 16, 1925, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich (Russian: Пётр Петро́вич Гне́дич; [ˈpʲɵtr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈɡnʲedʲɪtɕ]; 18 October [O.S. 30 October] 1855 – July 16, 1925), also known as Gnedich-Smolensky, was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art history scholar. He was a grandnephew of Russian poet and translator Nikolay Gnedich.

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Gnedich wrote more than 40 plays (7 of them historical) and several novels (Chinese Shadows, 1884, The Burden of this World, 1897). Anton Chekhov praised Gnedich's talent; the two authors have often been linked together by contemporary critics who also noted Gnedich's erudition and artfulness as a stylist. Pyotr Gnedich's best known non-fiction works were the History of Art from Ancient Times (1885), arguably the first popular Russian treatise of this kind, and his memoirs Book of Life (1929).

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