Shakhovskoy Alexander (24.04 (05.05) .1777 – 22.01 (03.02) .1846), Prince, Russian writer, theatrical figure. Academician of the Russian Academy (1810). He graduated from the Noble Boarding School of Moscow University (1792). In 1802 – 1826 actually led the St. Petersburg drama troupe. In 1811 – 1815 Member of the "Conversations amateurs Russian word. Written more than 100 pieces (vaudeville, historical plays, alteration works of European authors), among which are the prosaic play New Stern "(staged in 1805), directed against the sentimentalism and the like-narrative comedy" The Lesson of the yoke, or Lipetsk Waters "(1815 ). Plays Shakhovsky differed intrigue and interest-oriented vernacular. His goon gnomic verse (using raznostopnogo iambic) verse foretold, Woe from Wit "ASGriboedov.
Cit.: Works, St. Petersburg, 1898; Comedy. Poetry, L., 1961. Lit.: Bochkarev VA, Russian historical drama … (1816-1825), Kuibyshev 1968, pp. 324-36.