Aleksandr Nikolayevich Ostrovsky

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Born	April 12, 1823 • Moscow • Russia
Died	June 14, 1886 (aged 63) • Shchyolkovo • Russia
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Mikhail Matveyevich Kheraskov

Russian writer

Aleksandr Petrovich Sumarokov

Russian writer

Aleksandr Pushkin

Russian author

Nikolay Gogol

Ukrainian-born writer

Aleksandr Sergeyevich Griboyedov

Russian dramatist

Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky

Russian author

William Shakespeare

English author

Voltaire

French philosopher and author

Eugene O’Neill

American dramatist

Pierre Corneille

French poet and dramatist

John Dryden

British author

John Fletcher

English dramatist

Franz Grillparzer

Austrian dramatist

Heinrich von Kleist

German author

Tirso de Molina

Spanish dramatist

Hofmannsthal, photograph by Thea Sternheim, 1911; in the Schiller-Nationalmuseum, Marbach, Ger.

Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian author

Pierre Marivaux

French author

Philip Massinger

English playwright

Pietro Aretino

Italian author

J.M. Synge

Irish author

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