Viktor Dyachenko


Viktor Antonovich Dyachenko was a Russian playwright and theatre critic.
Having debuted in 1830 with God Gives You a Prayer..., he authored, in all, 76 plays, the most successful of which was Victim for Victim, God's Punishment and The Governor. At the peak of his success, in 1860—1863, he wrote 23 plays, 21 of which were included into the five-volume Drama Works collection which came out in Moscow in 1873—1876. Dealing predominantly with family life, Dyachenko's plays were highly popular with the general public as well as the actors who admired their structural perfection and simple, expressive language. Vasily Samoylov, Elena Struyskaya and Glikeriya Fedotova, among others, have expressed their delight with the way Dyachenko's plays had given big push to their respective careers.