A Poor Gentleman

play by Turgenev

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"A Poor Gentleman" is a play by Ivan Turgenev, written in 1848. It is noted as being somewhat imitative of the Russian master Nikolay Gogol. The play, along with others Turgenev wrote around that time, faced issues with official censors and was not staged professionally. Turgenev's dramatic masterpiece is considered to be "A Month in the Country" (1855).12

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Ivan Turgenev
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…at writing plays, some, like A Poor Gentleman (1848), rather obviously imitative of the Russian master Nikolay Gogol. Of these, The Bachelor (1849) was the only one staged at this time, the others falling afoul of the official censors. Others of a more intimately penetrating character, such as One May…
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…at writing plays, some, like A Poor Gentleman (1848), rather obviously imitative of the Russian master Nikolay Gogol. Of these, The Bachelor (1849) was the only one staged at this time, the others falling afoul of the official censors. Others of a more intimately penetrating character, such as One May…
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