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  • Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin.
    In Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin

    His masterpiece, Nedorosl (published 1783; “The Minor”), is considered the first truly Russian drama. It deals with a gentry family so ignorant and brutish that they survive only through the industry of their ill-treated serfs. The plot centres on the tyrannical mother’s attempts to educate her spoiled…

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