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Alexander Ostrovsky
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Russian playwright (1823-1886)

Also known as: Alexander Nikolajewitsch Ostrowski, A. N. Ostrovsky, Aleksander Nikolaevič Ostrovskij, Aleksander Nikolaevič Ostrowskij, Aleksandr Nikolaevich Ostrovsky, Aleksandr Ostrovsky

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Known works

  • O literature i teatre (1986)
  • Five plays of Alexander Ostrovsky (1969)
  • La foresta
  • Teatr A.N. Ostrovskogo v dvizhenii vremeni i kulʹtury
  • ha- Yaʻar ; Miśrah u-śekharah be-tsidah ; Ḥakhamim, hizaharu be-ṭipshutkhem