1. Viktor Burenin was the author of several popular plays, novels and opera librettos.
16 Facts About Viktor Burenin
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Viktor Burenin was born in Moscow, the twelfth child in the family of architect Pyotr Petrovich Burenin.
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In 1861 Burenin spent several months in Germany, Switzerland and France; since then his visits to the Western Europe became yearly.
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Viktor Burenin assisted Nikolai Nekrasov in gathering the historical data on the Decembrist revolt for the latter's poem Russian Women.
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In 1863 Nekrasov, Viktor Burenin moved to Saint Petersburg and a year later became a professional author.
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In 1876 Viktor Burenin joined Novoye Vremya, led by Alexey Suvorin and made a political U-turn.
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Viktor Burenin translated several plays, by William Shakespeare, Niccolo Machiavelli, Alexander Dumas, Karl Gutzkow, Gerhart Hauptmann, among others.
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For many years Viktor Burenin was taking an active part in the life of Maly Theatre before founding The Literary and Arts' Society Theatre.
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Viktor Burenin was helped a lot by Maxim Gorky whom he mercifully lampooned in the 1900s.
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Viktor Burenin was one of the most controversial Russian authors of the early 20th century.
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Many of Viktor Burenin's parodies found their way into Soviet satirical poetry anthologies.
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Lepyokhin, though, Viktor Burenin was not a right wing sympathizer, and his satires often clashed with Suvorin-dictated general line of the newspaper.
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Viktor Burenin "despised [Russian] literature and lampooned it," Alexey Suvorin maintained.
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Suvorin considered Viktor Burenin to be a victim of censorship which prevented him realizing his true potential.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky even argued that Viktor Burenin "understood him better than any other man" who wrote about him.
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Lepyokhin, Viktor Burenin has launched "a genre reform" which changed radically the face and the nature of Russian feuilleton.