Vintsėnt Dunin-Martsinkevich, Pinskaia shliakhta [The Gentry of Pinsk]

Aliaksandra Razor (University of California, Los Angeles)

Ed. by Roman Koropeckyj, University of California, Los Angeles
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 2.2.1.00: Slavic and Russian Writing and Culture: Old, Medieval and Tsarist, 700-1917.
Vol. editors: Neil Cornwell (University of Bristol), Roman Koropeckyj (University of California, Los Angeles), Andrei Rogatchevski (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway)

Dates

First circulation or publication 1866

Places

Belarus (Country of Origin; Publication/ performance)

Genres and Modes

Comedy

Resources

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Pinskaia Shliakhta

[

The Pinsk Gentry

] (1866) is one of the most famous plays by Vintsėnt Dunin-Martsinkevich (1808–1884), a classic of Belarusian literature who stood at the origins of the national literary language and professional dramatic arts.

Pinskaia shliakhta

was written in 1866, possibly during the writer’s incarceration for his family’s participation in Konstanty Kalinowski’s uprising of 1863. The play’s message reveals the author’s disenchantment with the role of the gentry and is a reaction to the failure of the uprising and consequent national humiliation. The content of

Pinskaia shliakhta

was perceived as so radical during the author’s lifetime that it could not bypass the tsarist censorship (the author did not even attempt to publish it, even though the…

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Citation: Razor, Aliaksandra. "Pinskaia shliakhta". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 17 July 2017 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35816, accessed 20 April 2024.]

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