{{Short description|Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art history scholar}} {{Infobox writer <!-- for more information see :Template:Infobox writer/doc --> | name = Pyotr Gnedich<br />{{lang|ru|Петр Гнедич}} | image = Pyotr gnedich.jpg | imagesize = 200px | birth_date = {{Birth date|1855|10|30|df=y}} | birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire | death_date = {{death date and age|1925|07|16|1855|10|30|df=y}} | death_place = Leningrad, Soviet Union | genre = fiction, poetry, memoirs | notableworks = | nationality = Russian, Ukrainian | awards = | signature = }} '''Pyotr Petrovich Gnedich''' ({{lang-rus|Пётр Петро́вич Гне́дич|p=ˈpʲɵtr pʲɪˈtrovʲɪtɕ ˈɡnʲedʲɪtɕ|a=Pyotr Pyetrovich Gnyedich.ru.vorb.oga}}; {{OldStyleDate|18 October|1855|30 October}} – July 16, 1925), also known as Gnedich-Smolensky, was a Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art history scholar. He was a grandnephew of Russian poet and translator Nikolay Gnedich. He is considered one of the founders of art history.

Gnedich wrote more than 40 plays (7 of them historical) and several novels (''Chinese Shadows'', 1884, ''The Burden of this World'', 1897). Anton Chekhov praised Gnedich's talent; the two authors have often been linked together by contemporary critics who also noted Gnedich's erudition and artfulness as a stylist. Pyotr Gnedich's best known non-fiction works were the ''History of Art from Ancient Times'' (1885), arguably the first popular Russian treatise of this kind, and his memoirs ''Book of Life'' (1929).<ref name="dic_90">{{cite web | author = Leontyeva, L.V. | year = 1990 | url =http://az.lib.ru/g/gnedich_p_p/text_0090.shtml| title = Gnedich, Pyotr Petrovich| publisher = Russian Writers. Biobibliographical Dictionary. Vol. 1. Moscow, Prosveshchenye Publishers | accessdate = 2011-10-10}}</ref>

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