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See also:OSTROVSKIY, See also:ALEXANDER NIKOLAIVICH (1823-1886) , See also:Russian dramatic author,.was See also:born on the 12th of See also:April 1823 in See also:Moscow, where his See also:father was an See also:official of the See also:senate. He studied
By those whose experience is derived from the observation of See also:captive ostriches this fact has been often disputed. But, the difference of circumstances under which they find themselves, and in particular their removal from the See also:heat-retaining sands of the See also:desert and its burning See also:sunshine, is quite enough to See also:account for the See also:change of See also:habit. Von See also:Heuglin also (p. 933) is explicit on this point.
See also:law in the university of that See also:city, which he quitted 'without having submitted to the final examination. He was then employed as a clerk in the See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of the " See also:Court of See also:Conscience," and subsequently in that of the Commercial Court at Moscow. Both tribunals were called upon to See also:settle disputes chiefly among the Russian See also:merchant class, from which Ostrovskiy was thus enabled to draw the See also:chief characters for his earliest comedies. Among these are Byednaya Nivesta (" The Poor See also:- BRIDE (a common Teutonic word, e.g..Goth. bruths, O. Eng. bryd, O. H. Ger. prs2t, Mod. Ger. Bract, Dut. bruid, possibly derived from the root bru-, cook, brew; from the med. latinized form bruta, in the sense of daughter-in-law, is derived the Fr. bru)
Bride "), Byednost ne Porok (" Poverty not a See also:Vice "), and Ne v'svoi sani ne sadis (literally " See also:Don't put yourself in another's sledge," meaning " Don't put yourself in a position for which you are not suited "). Of this last See also:Nicholas I. said, " it was not a See also:play, but a See also:lesson." The uncultured, self-satisfied Moscow merchants are strikingly portrayed in Grozk (" The See also:Tempest ") and Svoyi lyudi sochtyomsya (" Between near relatives no accounts are needed "), which was originally called " The Bankrupt." The last-mentioned See also:comedy was prohibited for ten years, until the See also:accession of Alexander II., and Ostrovskiy was dismissed the See also:government service and placed under the supervision of the See also:police. The Liberal tendencies of the new reign, however, soon brought See also:relief, Ostrovskiy was one of several well-known See also:literary men who were sent into the provinces to See also:report on the See also:condition of the See also:people. Ostrovskiy's See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field of inquiry See also:lay along the upper See also:Volga, a See also:part of the See also:country memorable for some of the most important events in Russian See also:history. This See also:mission induced him to write several See also:historical dramas of See also:great merit, such as Kuzma Zakharich Minin Soukhorouk (the full name of the famous See also:butcher who saved Moscow from the Poles); " The False See also:Demetrius" and " Vassily Shuisky "; Vassilisa Melentieva (the name of a favourite court See also:lady of See also:Ivan the Terrible), and the comedy, Voivoda eeli Son na V olge (" The Military See also:Commander," or " A See also:dream on the Volga "). Many of his later See also:works treat of the Russian See also:nobility, and include Byeshani Dengi (literally " Mad See also:Money "), Vospeetinitsa (" A Girl brought up in a Stranger's See also:Family "), and Volki e Ovtsi (" Wolves and See also:Sheep "); others relate to the See also:world of actors, such as Liess (" See also:Forest "), Bez vini vinovatiya (" Guiltlessly guilty "), and Talenti e Pokloniki (" Talents and their Admirers "). Ostrovskiy enjoyed the patronage of Alexander III., and received a See also:pension of 3000 roubles a See also:year. With the help of Moscow capitalists he established in that city a See also:model See also:theatre and school of dramatic See also:art, of which he became the first director. He also founded the Society of Russian Dramatic Art and See also:Opera Composers. His See also:death took See also:place on the 24th of See also:June 1886, while travelling to his See also:estate in See also:Kostroma.
End of Article: OSTROVSKIY, ALEXANDER NIKOLAIVICH (1823-1886)
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