The Brigadier

The "MediaBook" studio releases an audio version of the famous play—a comedy of manners, "The Brigadier," by Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin, one of the greatest Russian writers and a classic dramatist.

The work is included in the school reading program for Grade 8.

The audiobook is narrated by the popular radio host and well-known dubbing actress, Maya Romanova.

"Die, Denis—better you won’t write anything!", Grigory Potemkin after reading "The Brigadier"

"Fonvizin—the forerunner of magnificent Russian, wonderfully satirical literature." "The Brigadier" became the starting point for writers’ critical view of the everyday life of the nobility.", Maxim Gorky.

"The Brigadier" is an outstanding comedy. Fonvizin was among the first to portray on stage not abstract vices, but genuine, living Russian foolishness and ignorance, exposing "the wound of our society," Nikolai Gogol.

"In the works of this writer, the demonic impulse of sarcasm and indignation first appeared—an impulse that was destined to permeate all Russian literature and become its leading tendency," A. I. Herzen.