Ostrovsky biography
The childhood years of A. Ostrovsky were held in a parental house in Zamoskvorechye. He received a good home education, studied foreign languages since childhood. Thanks to the large library of his father, he got acquainted with Russian literature early and felt an inclination for writing, but his father forgave his son a legal career. At the age of 12, he began his studies at the 1st Moscow gymnasium, after which in the city in his student years he was passionately carried away by the theater and left the university without graduating from the course.
At the insistence of his father, he served in the Moscow conscientious - and then in a commercial - court. Work in court enriched the life experience of A. Ostrovsky and gave the future playwright rich material for creativity. The beginning of his professional literary activity A. Ostrovsky considered the play “Family Picture” followed by the play “Your People - Closure!
By order of Emperor Nicholas I, she was prohibited for production, and police supervision were installed behind the author. Having received approving reviews of N. Gogol, I. Goncharov and L. Tolstoy, on the stage the play was first staged in the city In the city of Ostrovsky, he became an employee of the Moskvityan magazine and entered the circle of young employees of the publication, who united not only writers, but also actors, musicians, artists, vividly interested in realistic art, folk life and Russian antiquity.
During this period, such plays came out of the pen of A. Ostrovsky, poetizing the life of the merchants, as “do not sit in your sled”, “poverty is not a vice”, “not as live as you want” a post. At the invitation of N. Nekrasov in the city of A. Ostrovsky, this time is distinguished by social acuteness, drama of situations, and the tension of the conflict. The playwright again turned to the exposure of the "rulers", contrasting them with his "little people." The plays were written: “In a strange feast of a hangover”, “profitable place”, “pupil” and “thunderstorm” post.
Ostrovsky was awarded the Uvarov Prize, established to encourage Russian writers to occupy dramatic literature. In the beginning of the x. During the period of cooperation of A. Ostrovsky in the journal “Domestic Notes”, satirical comedies are created from noble life, among which: “For any sage is quite simplicity”, “Frantic money”, “Forest” to the folk comedy genre returned in the plays “Not all Cat Maslenitsa”, “True - good, but happiness is better”.
The features of the folklore fairy tale and lyrical drama were united by the play “The Snow Maiden” of the Ostrovsky late period is distinguished by a combination of lyricism and drama: “The last victim”, “The heart is not a stone”, “The pond” post. A. Ostrovsky died on June 2, was buried in a church cemetery in the village of Nikolo-Berezhka of the Kostroma province. In total, over the years of work of A.
Ostrovsky, 47 plays were created that occupied a leading place in the repertoire of the Moscow Maly Theater. Outstanding actors of those years shone in them: S. Vasiliev, M. Ermolov, A. Martynov, L. Kositskaya and others. Drama A. Ostrovsky, which is distinguished by domestic, social details and masterful use of the Russian language, continues to be in demand in the theater environment and in our time.
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