# Pyotr Gnedich

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{{Short description|Russian writer, poet, dramatist, translator, theatre entrepreneur and art history scholar}}
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| name = Pyotr Gnedich<br />{{lang|ru|Петр Гнедич}}
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| birth_date   = {{Birth date|1855|10|30|df=y}}
| birth_place  = [Saint Petersburg](/source/Saint_Petersburg), [Russian Empire](/source/Russian_Empire)
| death_date   = {{death date and age|1925|07|16|1855|10|30|df=y}}
| death_place  = [Leningrad](/source/Saint_Petersburg), [Soviet Union](/source/Soviet_Union)
| genre        = fiction, poetry, memoirs
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| nationality  = [Russia](/source/Russia)n, [Ukrainian](/source/Ukrainians)
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'''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](/source/Russian_literature), [poet](/source/Russian_poetry), [dramatist](/source/dramatist), [translator](/source/translator), theatre entrepreneur and art history scholar. He was a grandnephew of Russian poet and translator [Nikolay Gnedich](/source/Nikolay_Gnedich). He is considered one of the founders of [art history](/source/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](/source/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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