person
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky
Pisemsky
also: Писемский, A. F. Pisemsky
A 19th-century Russian novelist and playwright (1821-1881) known for unsentimental, often cynical fiction about provincial and family life.
Reading notes
- Ionych §59 Pisemsky
Aleksey Feofilaktovich Pisemsky, the mid-century Russian novelist Yekaterina Ivanovna is reading; she finds his old-fashioned patronymic funnier than his fiction.
- A Conversation §4 Pisemsky
Aleksey Pisemsky (1821-1881), a Russian novelist and playwright known for unsparing, often cynical depictions of provincial and family life -- the kind of writer whose fiction would plausibly include the marital scheme the speaker describes.