Dmitry Averkiyev

{{Infobox person | name = Dmitry Averkiyev | image = Аверкиев Д.В.jpg | image_size = 170px | caption = | birth_name = Дмитрий Васильевич Аверкиев | birth_date = {{Birth date|1836|10|12}} | birth_place = Ekaterinodar, Russian Empire | death_date = {{Death date and age|1905|1|20|1836|10|12}} | death_place = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | occupation = theatre critic, playwright, novelist, translator, librettist | years_active = | spouse = | website = | awards = }}

'''Dmitry Vasilyevich Averkiyev''' ({{langx|ru|Дмитрий Васильевич Аверкиев}}; October 12, 1836, in Yekaterinodar, Russian Empire – January 20, 1905, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian playwright, theatre critic, novelist, publicist and translator.

Averkiyev's best known plays were ''Frol Skobeyev'' (Фрол Скобеев, 1869) and ''Old Times in Kashira'' (Каширская старина, 1872); both continued to be produced into the Soviet times. He was also an acclaimed theatre critic who contributed to ''Epokha'', ''Moskovskiye Vedomosti'', ''Novoye Vremya'' and ''Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya'' (where he was the head of the literary section, in 1869–1871). Averkiyev's magnum opus ''On Drama'' won him the Pushkin Prize in 1893.<ref name="bre1">The Great Russian Encyclopedia //Большая Российская энциклопедия (in 30 volumes). Vol. 1. 2005.</ref><ref name="ЛЭ">[http://slovari.yandex.ru/dict/litenc/article/le1/le1-6461.htm Дмитрий Васильевич Аверкиев]{{Dead link|date=February 2024 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} at the Literary Encyclopedia</ref><ref name="dic">{{cite web | author = | date =1990 | url = http://az.lib.ru/a/awerkiew_d_w/text_0110.shtml |title = Аверкиев, Дмитрий Васильевич| publisher = Russian Writers Dictionary. Prosveshchenye Publishers| accessdate = 16 May 2015}}</ref>

Averkiyev authored the Russian libretto to ''Rogneda'' by Alexander Serov. Tikhon Khrennikov's opera ''Frol Skobeyev'' (1950) is based on Averkiyev's play of the same name.

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