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unusual facts about Contributors to ''Sovremennik'' in 1856 : Ivan Goncharov



A Common Story

A Common Story (Обыкнове́нная исто́рия) is a debut novel by Ivan Goncharov written in 1844-1846 and first published in the 1847 March and April issues of Sovremennik magazine.

Afanasy Fet

In 1853, encouraged by Nikolay Nekrasov, Fet joined the then rising Sovremennik circle, meeting among new faces his old friends Ivan Turgenev and critic Vasily Botkin.

Dmitry Grigorovich

Grigorovich's second short novel Anton Goremyka (Luckless Anton, 1847), this time promptly published by Sovremennik, made the author famous.

Oleg Tabakov

He administrated the Sovremennik until 1982, when he moved to the Moscow Art Theatre, where he has played Molière and Salieri for over 20 years.


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