Vladimir Shchiglev
Vladimir Romanovich Shchiglev was a Russian satirical poet and playwright, who occasionally used the pseudonyms Shchigrov and Romanych.
Shchiglev, a Saint Petersburg University alumnus, whose major early influence was the children's writer Vasily Vodovozov, his one time gymnasium tutor, started to write early and later contributed regularly to Iskra, Russkoye Slovo, Budilnik and Niva. His best-known play, a vaudeville called Pomolvka v Galyornoy gavani, for thirty years remained part of the Russian Imperial Theatres' repertoire. Well-received were his plays for children, some of which came out in the 1898 Dyuzhinka collection.
Some of Shiglev's work has never appeared in print in Russia. The play Zarnitsy came out abroad, under the pseudonym Startseva. The satirical vaudeville Feskina kramola, lampooning Russian secret police, was a hit with amateur underground theatre troupes of his time.
