Gogol’s Friend N.Ya. Prokopovich and His Service as an Actor in the St. Petersburg Imperial Theaters
Nikolai Yakovlevich Prokopovich (1810–1857) was Gogol’s close friend, a publisher of his works, a poet, and a teacher. After graduating from the Nizhyn gymnasium he came to St. Petersburg and entered the drama department of the theater school (1829). Then he served for several years (1832–1835) as a...
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Russian Academy of Sciences. A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature
2025-06-01
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| Series: | Литературный факт |
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| Online Access: | https://litfact.ru/images/2025-36/5_Vinogradskaya.pdf |
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| Summary: | Nikolai Yakovlevich Prokopovich (1810–1857) was Gogol’s close friend, a publisher of his works, a poet, and a teacher. After graduating from the Nizhyn gymnasium he came to St. Petersburg and entered the drama department of the theater school (1829). Then he served for several years (1832–1835) as an actor in the St. Petersburg Imperial theaters. The article provides new biographical information about him and his theatrical career. It examines the range of plays in which he and his wife Maria Nikiforovna Trokhneva, also an actress, played. Gogol, who maintained a close relationship with Prokopovich all his life, could attend performances with his participation. Gogol transformed the dramatic traditions and techniques implemented in them into his own comedies. Later he expressed his views on the features of the repertoire of those years and the trends in the development of the national theater in an article devoted to the St. Petersburg stage of 1835–1836. |
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| ISSN: | 2541-8297 2542-2421 |