Pyotr Nevezhin
Pyotr Mikhaylovich Nevezhin was a Russian dramatist and short story writer.
Biography
Nevezhin was born in Smolensk to a local landlord. He graduated the First Moscow Cadet Corps, served for several years as an army officer and was briefly engaged in the Russo-Turkish War.His first two comedies, comedy, Blazh, and Staroye po-novomu, both written in collaboration with Alexander Ostrovsky, were successfully staged by the Moscow Maly Theatre and St Petersburg's Alexandrinka.
Of about thirty of Nevezhin's own plays the most popular one was the drama Vtoraya molodost, for which he received his second Griboyedov Prize. His first one went to Childhood Friend, in 1886.
The Complete Works by Pyotr Nevezhin in ten volumes came out in 1898-1901, via the Prosvescheniye Publishers. His acclaimed Memoires on Ostrovsky were published by Teatr i Iskusstvo and The Imperial Theatres Yearbook.
Nevezhin died in 1919 in Petrograd and is interred in the Volkovo Cemetery.