Background
Pavel Weinberg was born on November 30, 1910, in Russian Empire.
Actor fiction writer playwright
Pavel Weinberg was born on November 30, 1910, in Russian Empire.
Pavel Weinberg studied at the Saint Petersburg Gymnasium named after Ya.G. Gurevich, then from 1891 at drama courses, did not finish.
Pavel Weinberg played in the provinces, as well as in theaters of the Literary Art Society and the People’s House in Saint Petersburg. He worked as a director and entrepreneur. Since 1903 Pavel Weinberg was an employee of the Petersburg newspaper where he printed almost daily feuilletons, short stories, satirical poems, ridiculing bourgeois customs, "fashionable" currents of the literary and artistic life of the capital. After the death of N.A. Leikin (1906), he conducted the rubric Flying notes. In 1907 the newspaper published excerpts from his humorous stories about the morals of the theatrical bohemia. The author of the plays Without the Sun, The Solution to the Night, Flowerbed Bobrika, which were staged on provincial and metropolitan scenes. The main theme of these performances is the aimlessness existence of a provincial intelligentsia that does not have social ideals and prospects, its inability to choose a worthy life path.
Pavel Weinberg clearly tried to follow A.P. Chekhov in the choice of characters and partly in the dramatic style. He also wrote one-act plays: Units, By the Hours (1901), Fifth Gatehouse.
