Aleksey Pisemsky
Novelist and dramatist
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky was a Russian novelist and dramatist who was regarded as an equal of Ivan Turgenev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky in the late 1850s, but whose reputation suffered a spectacular decline after his fall-out with Sovremennik... Wikipedia
Born: March 23, 1821, Ramenye, Russia
Died: January 21, 1881 (age 59 years), Moscow, Russia
Books: One Thousand Souls, The Simpleton, In the Vortex, and more
Plays: A Bitter Fate, The Hypochondriac, and Men Above the Law
Literary movement: Realism
Notable works: One Thousand Souls (1858); A Bitter Fate (1859); An Old Man's Sin (1862); Troubled Seas (1863)
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