Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko
Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko | |
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Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko in 1912 | |
| Born | 4 January 1845 |
| Died | 18 September 1936 (aged 91) |
Vasily Ivanovich Nemirovich-Danchenko (Russian: Васи́лий Ива́нович Немиро́вич-Да́нченко, 23 December (4 January) 1845 – 18 September 1936, Prague, Czechoslovakia) was a Russian writer, essayist, journalist and memoirist. He was the brother of the theatre director Vladimir Nemirovich-Danchenko. Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko, the most prolific Russian Empire writer of the late 19th-early 20th century, published more than 250 books; he was widely popular among the general reading public, but had little success with mainstream critics.