Background
Yuri Dmitrievich Belyaev was born on December 10, 1876, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Larinskaya gymnasium
journalist playwright theater critic prose writer
Yuri Dmitrievich Belyaev was born on December 10, 1876, in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation.
Yuri Dmitrievich studied at the Larinskaya gymnasium.
From 1894 Yuri Dmitrievich published stories, historical and theatrical essays in the journal "Zhivopisnoye Obozreniye" and "Sever". At the turn of the 1890 - the 1900s collaborated with the magazine "Theater and Art", he controlled by the theater department of the newspaper "Russia" and was one of the leading critics of the newspaper "Petersburgski dnevnik teatrala".
Since the beginning of the 1900s, Yuri Dmitrievich worked in "Novoe vremya" (and later, in "Vecherneye vremya"). He wrote articles about the theater, art exhibitions, small feuilletons, parodies and cartoons under the pseudonyms Viscount d'Apolinaris and Vaudeville". Published two essays: "V. F. Komissarzhevskaya" (1899) and "L. B. Yavorskaya" (1900). Critical articles by Yuri Dmitrievich are collected in the books "Actors and Plays" (Saint Petersburg, 1902) and "Melpomene" (1905). In 1905 Yuri Dmitrievich took a trip along the Volga and the Volga region, the result of which was the feuilleton, collected later in the book "V necotorom tsarstve".
From 1908 Yuri Dmitrievich began to write for the theater. His plays: "Putanica, ili 1840 god", "Krasny Kabachok", "Old Peterhof" and especially "Psisha" (1911-1912), "The Frog Princess", "Lady of Torzhok". His plays gravitated to the ancient vaudeville tradition and were built mainly on historical and everyday material.
Quotes from others about the person
P. Pilsky about Suvorin’s influence on Belyaev's works: "Suvorin’s school had an effect on Belyaev in the tone of his letter, in the selection of phrases ... in the authoritative negligence of external verbal construction ... in the willfulness of comparisons." However, "the teacher was manful and the student womanlike, one influenced and the other willingly gave in."
F. Sologub: "From the point of view of "morality and journalism", Belyaev's numerous theatrical reviews and essays, sketches had "The direct feeling with which an unbiased viewer watches the play, without thinking about its assessment.