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Alexander Ostrovsky

Died in 1886

Alexander Ostrovsky (1823-1886) was born in the Zamoskvorechye district of Moscow, the son of a lawyer. He left the university without a degree and served from 1843 to 1850 in the Moscow courts, including the commercial court, where he saw at first hand the disputes of merchants, the material of his theatre. He took part in a study mission along the Volga, from its sources to Nizhny Novgorod. His plays gave Russian theatre a national repertoire, and they remain among the most performed in the country. He died on his estate of Shchelykovo.

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