ISSN 2411-0795
ISSN 2411-0795
Keywords: N.I. Nadezhdin, Imperial Moscow University, literary criticism, theatre criticism, "Bulletin of Europe" magazine, "Telescope" magazine, "Molva" newspaper, M.T. Kachenovsky, V.G. Belinsky, N.V. Gogol
Kryukova O.S. Professor of Moscow University N.I. Nadezhdin as a Theatre Critic. // Theory and History of Art. 2024. N 3/4, p.183–193
The article provides an overview of the life and scientific path of Moscow University professor Nikolai Ivanovich Nadezhdin, a literary and theatre critic. Special attention is paid to his activities at Moscow University.
In the study a cultural and historical approach is used, which allows for a critical assessment of the contribution made by N.I. Nadezhdin, including his literary and artistic-critical works. Nadezhdin in his literary and critical articles aimed to establish a hierarchy of literary genres. As a literary critic he initially had quite extremely critical views on contemporary literature, though not always was he objective in assessing his contemporaries' works. As a theater critic, Nadezhdin gave feedback to the Moscow staging of the play "Woe from Wit" in 1831. A series of articles concerning theatre was entitled "The Russian Theatre (Letters to St. Petersburg)" and published in 1833 in "Molva" ('rumor'). Four letters have not been signed, but there are serious arguments in favor of Nadezhdin's authorship. Nadezhdin supposed that the main task of contemporary art was to synthesize classicism and romanticism, and thus subjected the neoclassical and neo-romantic manner of acting to a close and rigorous analysis.