Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko

Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko
Native name
Владимир Немирович-Данченко
BornVladimir Ivanovich Danchenko
23 December [O.S. 11 December] 1858
Shemokmedi, Russian Empire
Died25 April 1943(1943-04-25) (aged 84)
Moscow, Russian SFSR,
Soviet Union
Resting placeNovodevichy Cemetery, Moscow
OccupationActor
Theatre director
Theatre pedagogist
Alma materMoscow State University
Literary movementNaturalism
Symbolism
Psychological realism
Socialist realism
Notable worksFounder 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]