Dmitry Averkiyev
Dmitry Vasilyevich Averkiyev was a Russian playwright, theatre critic, novelist, publicist and translator. He is the author of the Russian libretto to Rogneda by Alexander Serov.
Averkiyev's best known plays were Frol Skorbeyev and Old Times in Kashira ; both continued to be produced into the Soviet times. He was also an acclaimed theatre critic who contributed to Epokha, Moskovskiye Vedomosti, Novoye Vremya and Vsemirnaya Illyustratsiya. Averkiyev's magnum opus On Drama won him the Pushkin Prize in 1893.
