Tag: Denis Fonvizin

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At the end of October 1915, in the British literary magazine The New Age, Carl Erich Bechhöfer continued with his regular column 'Letters from Russia', which he had been contributing from the turn of the year. His subject this time was Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (1745-1792), the Russian playwright, whose name Bechhöfer renders as 'von Vizin', which had been the typical spelling...