Pyotr Gnedich, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Pyotr Gnedich

Russian author

Date of Birth: 18-Oct-1855

Place of Birth: Saint Petersburg

Date of Death: 16-Jul-1925

Profession: writer, playwright, translator, linguist

Zodiac Sign: Libra

Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich (Russian: ???? ?????´??? ???´???, IPA: ['p??tr p??'trov??t? 'gn?ed??t?] (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. 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).