Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich (Russian: Пётр Петро́вич Гне́дич, IPA: [ˈpʲɵtr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈɡnʲedʲɪtɕ] (listen); 18 October [O.S. 30 October] 1855 – July 16, 1925), also known as Gnedich-Smolensky, was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art history scholar. He was a grandnephew of Russian poet and translator Nikolay Gnedich. He is considered one of the founders of art history.
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Born | (1855-10-30)30 October 1855 Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
Died | 16 July 1925(1925-07-16) (aged 69) Leningrad, Soviet Union |
Nationality | Russian, Ukrainian |
Genre | fiction, poetry, memoirs |
Gnedich wrote more than 40 plays (7 of them historical) and several novels (Chinese Shadows, 1884, The Burden of this World, 1897). Anton Chekhov praised Gnedich's talent; the two authors have often been linked together by contemporary critics who also noted Gnedich's erudition and artfulness as a stylist. Pyotr Gnedich's best known non-fiction works were the History of Art from Ancient Times (1885), arguably the first popular Russian treatise of this kind, and his memoirs Book of Life (1929).[1]
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