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Portrait of work by V. Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky is an outstanding Russian playwright, whose work has become the most important stage in the development of the Russian National Theater.

Alexander Ostrovsky was born on March 31 on April 12 in the wealthy family of a college assessor. His childhood passed in the merchant district of Zamoskvorechye. Thanks to the large library of his father, Ostrovsky got acquainted with Russian literature early and felt a tendency to writing. Passion for the theater began with admission to the first Moscow gymnasium. There Ostrovsky began to play in theatrical productions.

But his dreams to become a writer were met by his father in bayonets, he did not see in this a future profession for his son. To please his father, Alexander Nikolaevich, entered the law faculty at Moscow University. However, his training there was not too successful. A newly made student preferred theatrical productions to boring lectures. As a result, he was expelled.

Now it was necessary to earn a living, so with the help of his father, Alexander Nikolaevich began working in the office. In the evenings in his free time, the future playwright composed his first works. At the same time, he wrote the first play “The picture of family happiness”. Since that time, according to Alexander Nikolaevich himself, he began to consider himself a writer.

Ostrovsky was about 24 years old, when he met a good and charming commoner Agafya, who lived nearby, and tried to build his family happiness. Having learned about these relations, his father threatened to deprive the Ostrovsky inheritance, but the lovers continued to live together. An unregistered marriage lasted almost 20 years. All of their several children died at an early age.

After the death of Agafya, the writer married Mary, who gave him four sons and two daughters in the year. The literary fame of Ostrovsky was brought by the comedy “His people - we’ll consider it! However, the play caused approving responses of N. Gogol, I. I. an influential Moscow merchants, offended by his estate, complained to the “superiors”. The comedy was prohibited for production, and the author was dismissed from the service and was given under the supervision of the police by personal order of Nicholas I.

Supervision was removed after the accession of Alexander II, and the play was allowed to produce only in the year. A new round in the pram of the playwright began with the premiere of the play based on the play "Not in your sled - do not sit down." Ostrovsky personally participated in rehearsals so that actors could better understand their roles. This was followed by other works, no less remarkable.

For more than thirty years, starting from the year, the new plays of Ostrovsky appeared almost every season in the Moscow Small and St. Petersburg Alexandrinsky Theaters. Since the year, Ostrovsky has become a regular employee of the magazine "Contemporary". In the same year, in accordance with the wish of Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich, a business trip was held for outstanding writers to study and describe various localities of Russia in industrial and domestic relations.

Ostrovsky took over the study of the Volga from the upper reaches to Nizhny Novgorod. He saw a lot and recorded a lot for local merchants, in the future these notes helped in creating new images. Contemporaries of Alexander Nikolaevich highly appreciated his talent, the ability to see the human soul. He continued to create acute social works that invariably caused a lot of emotions in the public.

A memorable moment in creative life was work on the joint project "Snow Maiden" with composer Peter Tchaikovsky. The play was attended by artists of small and big theaters. In the 10ths, Alexander Ostrovsky held the position of honorary justice of the peace in the Kinesham district. Participation in processes and acquaintance with criminal chronicle gave him the opportunity to find new topics for his works.

Researchers suggest that the plot of the “unpridant” was prompted by the playwright one of the high -profile affairs, stirring the whole county - the murder of his young wife by local resident Ivan Konovalov. Work on the play lasted several years. The premiere performances on the "Divorce" took place in the fall of the year and ... failed! They caused a protest among spectators and theatrical critics.

Success came to the work only after the death of the author. The Russian theater begins with Alexander Ostrovsky in the modern sense. His plays depict ordinary situations with ordinary people, whose dramas go into everyday life and human psychology. Despite the fact that his plays made good fees, Emperor Alexander III granted him an annual pension of three thousand rubles in the year, money problems did not leave Ostrovsky until the last days.

Health did not meet the plans that he put in front of himself. Enhanced work exhausted the body. His last work was the translation of “Anthony and Cleopatra” by William Shakespeare, the beloved playwright Alexander Nikolaevich. Ostrovsky died on June 14 in his Kostroma estate Shchelykovo from heart disease. The emperor allocated rubles to his funeral. The widow of Ostrovsky and his children was assigned an annual pension of a similar size.