Nikolai Pogodin's plays were recognized in Soviet Union theater for their realistic portrayals of common life combined with socialist and communist themes.
13 Facts About Nikolai Pogodin
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Nikolai Pogodin is most widely known as the author of a trilogy about Lenin, the first time Lenin was used as a character in any theatrical works.
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Between 14 and 20, Pogodin worked a variety of low-level jobs: selling newspapers, distributing supplies for typewriters and dental equipment, working in a machine shop, bookbinding and carpentry.
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Nikolai Pogodin lent his screenplay skills to the State Leningrad Puppet Theater of Fairy Tales with a play titled The Tale of the Beast Called Indrik.
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Nikolai Pogodin provided a report on children's literature at the Tenth Plenary Meeting of the Union of Soviet Writers in 1946.
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From 1951 to 1960 Nikolai Pogodin was the chief editor of the theatrical journal Teatr.
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The works of Nikolai Pogodin fall under, or closely adhere to, the wider artistic movement known as Socialist realism.
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Nikolai Pogodin being a Socialist Realist playwright created his works by taking topics that were prevalent in early Soviet history.
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Nikolai Pogodin next wrote "My Friend" in 1932 that was about the building of a large factory in a peasant country.
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Nikolai Pogodin was awarded the title of Honored Art Workers of the Russian Republic.
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Nikolai Pogodin was awarded the State Stalin Prize of the second category in 1951.
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In 1934, Nikolai Pogodin appeared for the first time in the Petropavlovsk playbill featuring his play My Friend.
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The mission of the Russian Theater, named after Nikolai Pogodin, never ran out of artistically challenging plays.