Yakov Knyazhnin
Russian author
Died when: 48 years 59 days (577 months)Star Sign: Scorpio
Yakov Borisovich Knyazhnin (Russian: ?´??? ????´????? ??????´?, November 3, 1742 or 1740, Pskov – January 1, 1791, St Petersburg) was Russia's foremost tragic author during the reign of Catherine the Great.
Knyazhnin's contemporaries hailed him as the true successor to his father-in-law Alexander Sumarokov, but posterity, in the words of Vladimir Nabokov, tended to view his tragedies and comedies as "awkwardly imitated from more or less worthless French models".
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