Fedor Alekseevich Koni (1809-1879) - Russian playwright , theater critic , memoirist and translator, theater historian [1] , teacher. The father of Anatoly Fedorovich Koni , the actual husband of Nastasya Vasilyevna Kairova .
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Biography
Fyodor Koni was born in a merchant family in Moscow on March 9 (21), 1809 . He studied at Moscow University , initially at the Faculty of Medicine, then transferred to the verbal department [1] .
He was fluent in five languages. He taught history in the First Moscow Cadet Corps . In 1836, Koni moved to St. Petersburg , where he continued his teaching career. In 1844, Fyodor Koni wrote the monograph History of Frederick the Great, for which the University of Jena awarded him a doctorate in philosophy . In the early 40s, Koni edited the theater magazine Pantheon of Russian and All European Theaters, and then Literary Newspaper. A master of the vaudeville genre ( The Hussar Girl , 1836 , Petersburg Apartments, 1840 , etc.), in 1840 he founded the Pantheon theater magazine (later Repertoire and Pantheon ), which merged with "Repertoire" and became the " Repertoire of the Russian and Pantheon of all European theaters " [2] . It was published in the Russian Scene magazine, after the magazine was transformed into a newspaper of the same name, it was also published in it.
He gained fame as the author of several vaudeville popular for that time: “The Prince with Khokhl, Belm and Hump”, “The husband is in the fireplace, and his wife is at a party,” “The Hussar Girl” [1] . He translated the four-volume “History ...” by A. Thiers.
He was buried in St. Petersburg at the Nikolsky cemetery of the Alexander Nevsky Lavra [3] .
Bibliography
- Theater. T.1-4. SPb., 1870-1871
- "The History of Frederick the Great", St. Petersburg, 1844, 1845
- Vaudeville. M., Goslitizdat, 1937
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Big Russian Encyclopedia: 30 Vol. / Chairman scientific-ed. Council Yu. S. Osipov. Repl. Ed. S. L. Kravets. T. 15. Congo - Baptism. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 2010 .-- 767 p.: Ill .: maps. (p. 42)
- ↑ Vysotsky, 1988 , p. 15.
- ↑ Alexander Nevsky Lavra. Monastery cemeteries
Literature
- Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. - T. 3: K — M. - M.: Big Russian Encyclopedia , 1994. - S. 56-57.
- Koni, Fedor Alekseevich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
Links
- Koni F. A. Memoirs of the Moscow Theater under M.E. Medoks (Derived from the unedited notes of S. N. Glinka and oral stories of old-timers) // Pantheon and Repertoire, 1840. - Part 1. - Dep. 2. - S. 89-102.
- Vysotsky S.A. Koni. - M .: Young Guard , 1988 .-- 429 (3) p. - (The life of wonderful people ). - 150,000 copies. - ISBN 5-235-00224-5 .