Dmitrii Averkiev

Averkiev, Dmitrii Vasil’evich

 

Born Sept. 30 (Oct. 12), 1836, in Ekaterinodar; died Jan. 7 (20), 1905, in St. Petersburg. Russian writer; of a merchant family.

Averkiev was graduated from the University of St. Petersburg in 1859. His plays, idealizing Russia’s past, are melodramatic. A Comedy About the Russian Nobleman Frol Skobeev . . . (1869) and The Old Days in Kashira (1872) were popular. In 1885–86, Averkiev published a monthly Diary of a Writer, which contained his stories, commentaries, and critical articles.

WORKS

Dramy, vols. 1–3, 2nd ed. St. Petersburg, 1906.
Povesti iz starinnogo byta, vols. 1–2. St. Petersburg, 1898.
Povesti iz sovr. byta, vols. 1–3. St. Petersburg, 1898.