# Nikolai Chayev

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{{Short description|Russian writer, poet, and playwright (1824 – 1914)}}
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| name         = Nikolai Chayev
| image        = Chaev NA.jpg
| image_size   = 220px
| caption      = Chayev in 1885
| birth_name   = Николай Александрович Чаев
| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1824|5|8}}
| birth_place  = [Kostroma Governorate](/source/Kostroma_Governorate), [Imperial Russia](/source/Imperial_Russia)
| death_date   = {{Death date and age|1914|11|16|1824|5|8}}
| death_place  = [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg), Imperial Russia
| occupation   = writer, poet, playwright
| years_active = 1859-1914
| spouse       =
| website      = 
| awards       = [Griboyedov Prize](/source/Griboyedov_Prize) (1883) 
}}

'''Nikolai Alexandrovich Chayev''' ({{langx|ru|Николай Александрович Чаев}}; 8 May 1824 – 16 November 1914) was a [Russian writer](/source/Russian_Literature), [poet](/source/poet), and [playwright](/source/playwright).<ref name="brockhaus">[http://dic.academic.ru/dic.nsf/brokgauz_efron/112632  Чаев, Н.А.] at the [Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary](/source/Brockhaus_and_Efron_Encyclopedic_Dictionary) // Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона. — С.-Пб.: Брокгауз-Ефрон. 1890—1907.</ref>

Chayev was born in [Kostroma Governorate](/source/Kostroma_Governorate), [Imperial Russia](/source/Imperial_Russia). A [Moscow University](/source/Moscow_University) graduate who for several years was the chief supervisor of the [Kremlin Armoury](/source/Kremlin_Armoury), he made his debut in print in 1859, originally as a fiction writer. He then turned to drama, choosing the early Russian history as his theme, and had his best-known work produced at the [Alexandrinsky Theatre](/source/Alexandrinsky_Theatre) in [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg) (''Svat Faddeyich'', Сват Фаддеич, 1864; ''Dimitry Samozvanets'', Димитрий Самозванец, The False Dmitry, 1866), and [Maly Theatre](/source/Maly_Theatre_(Moscow)) in Moscow (''Svekrov'', Свекровь, Mother-in-law, 1867; ''Znai nashikh'', Знай наших, That's Us, 1876). His play ''The Tsar and the Great Prince of Russia, Vasily Ivanovich Shuysky'' was produced by the [Korsh Theatre](/source/Korsh_Theatre) in 1883 and earned him the [Griboyedov Prize](/source/Griboyedov_Prize) of that year. He also authored two novels on the times of [Pavel I](/source/Pavel_I)  (''Podspudnye sily'', Подспудные силы, Hidden Forces, and ''Bogatyri'', Богатыри), as well as the poem ''Nadya'' (Надя).<ref name="brockhaus"/>

Chayev was a co-founder in 1874 of the [Society of Russian Dramatists and Opera Composers](/source/Society_of_Russian_Dramatists_and_Opera_Composers) (Общество русских драматических писателей и оперных композиторов) and served as its chairman for a while. After [Alexander Ostrovsky](/source/Alexander_Ostrovsky)'s death he succeeded him as the head of the Repetroire committee for the Moscow Theatres.<ref name="brockhaus"/><ref>Lotman, L. A. N. Ostrovsky and the Drama Theatre od His Times // Лотман Л. А. Н. Островский и русская драматургия его времени. — М.—Л., 1961. — C. 271—273.</ref> He died in [Petrograd](/source/Petrograd).

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