- Vladislav Ozerov
Vladislav Aleksandrovich Ozerov ( _ru. Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович О́зеров,
11 October ,1769 —17 September ,1816 ) was the most popularRussia n dramatist in the first decades of the 19th century.Ozerov wrote five tragedies "in the stilted and sentimental manner of the Frenchified era" [
Vladimir Nabokov . "Eugene Onegin: A Novel in Verse: Commentary". Princeton University Press, 1991. ISBN 0-691-01904-5. Page 82.] . Their success was tremendous, largely owing to the remarkable acting of one of the greatest Russian tragediennes,Ekaterina Semyonova . What the public liked in these tragedies was the atmosphere of sensibility and the polished,Karamzin ian sweetness that Ozerov infused into the classical forms.Ozerov's first success was "Oedipus in Athens" (1804), a wry comment on Alexander I's rumoured privity to the murder of his father Paul. The public was ecstatic about his next tragedy, "Fingal" (1805), staged with effective sets representing sombre Scottish scenery. "Dmitry Donskoy" (1807) was staged within days after the
Battle of Eylau , when its patriotic ethos was particularly apposite. His last play was "Polyxena" (1809), variously assessed as the finest sentimental tragedy in the language ["The Cambridge History of Russian Literature" (ed. by Charles Moser). Cambridge University Press, 1992. ISBN 0-521-42567-0. Page 122.] and the best Russian tragedy on the French classical model [D.S. Mirsky . "A History of Russian Literature". Northwestern University Press, 1999. ISBN 0-8101-1679-0. Page 68.] .The production of "Polyxena" turned out to be a flop, largely due to intrigues of Ozerov's literary woes. He was forced to leave
St. Petersburg for his country estate nearZubtsov , where he reportedly went mad and burnt all his papers. Ozerov's last years were spent in poverty, and his posthumous reputation was damaged byPushkin 's dismissal of his plays as "very mediocre".External links
* [http://az.lib.ru/o/ozerow_w_a/ Works by Vladislav Ozerov] ru icon
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