Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko | |
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Native name | Владимир Немирович-Данченко |
Born | Vladimir Ivanovich Danchenko 23 December [O.S. 11 December] 1858 Shemokmedi, Russian Empire |
Died | 25 April 1943 Moscow, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | (aged 84)
Resting place | Novodevichy Cemetery, Moscow |
Occupation | Actor Theatre director Theatre pedagogist |
Alma mater | Moscow State University |
Literary movement | Naturalism Symbolism Psychological realism Socialist realism |
Notable works | Founder of the Moscow Art Theatre and Stanislavski and Nemirovich-Danchenko Theatre |
Vladimir Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Russian: Владимир Иванович Немирович-Данченко; 23 December [O.S. 11 December] 1858, in Ozurgeti – 25 April 1943, in Moscow) was a Soviet and Russian theatre director, writer, pedagogue, playwright, producer and theatre administrator, who founded the Moscow Art Theatre with his colleague, Konstantin Stanislavski, in 1898.[1]