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Alexei Antipovitch Potekhin (1829–1908) (Russian: Алексей Антипович Потехин) was a Russian dramatist and novelist.
Biography
He was born at Kineshma, in Kostroma, studied at Jaroslav, and settled in Saint Petersburg. As a novelist he is a realist of much the same school as Pisemsky and especially able in his portrayal of dismal village life. His earlier plays were slow in getting to the stage, as they were blocked by the censors for their attacks on present conditions.
Works
Plays
- The Voice of the People Not the Voice of God (1853)
- Ill-Gotten Gains Do Not Prosper (1854)
- Tinsel (1858)
- The Severed Limb (1865)
- A Vacant Place (1870)
Novels and tales of peasant life
- The Poor Nobles (1859)
- For Money, a story of factories
- The Sick Woman (1876)
- Under the Spell of Money (1876)
- Before the Community (1877)
- Young Inclinations (1879)
- Village Vampires (1880)
Notes
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References
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). "Potekhin, Alexei Antipovitch" . New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead.
- 1829 births
- 1908 deaths
- Novelists from the Russian Empire
- Writers from Saint Petersburg
- Russian male dramatists and playwrights
- Honorary members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences
- Russian male novelists
- 19th-century novelists from the Russian Empire
- 19th-century dramatists and playwrights from the Russian Empire
- 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire
- Burials at Tikhvin Cemetery