Ivan Dmitrievsky
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Ivan Afanasievich Dmitrievsky (1734-1821) is generally regarded as the most influential actor of Russian Neoclassicism. Together with his friend Fyodor Volkov he inaugurated the first Russian theatre in Yaroslavl (1750), later moving with the rest of the troupe to St Petersburg (1756). His tragic parts in Alexander Sumarokov's plays were admired by Catherine the Great and her friend Ekaterina Dashkova. Later, he delivered lectures on theatre in the Russian Academy, of which he was a member.
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