Talk:Alexander Ostrovsky

Name
If you are going to be pedantic enough to remove the second "e" from "Alexander" (i.e. Alexandr Ostrovsky), please be thorough enough to replace the "x" with "ks" (Aleksandr). Of course the Wikipedia MOS Police will cite you for policy violation, but you would at least be accurate and consistent.Ivan Velikii 07:06, 16 November 2007 (UTC)


 * I wouldn't have put it quite as rudely as that, but I agree with the general sentiment. It should be either Alexander or Aleksandr, but never the hybrid Alexandr.  It's more common to see "Александр"s rendered as the English counterpart Alexander (see Alexander Glazunov and Tsars Alexander I, II and III, for example, but Aleksandr is not unknown.  The form Alexandr, on the other hand, is almost completely unknown.  --  JackofOz (talk) 11:55, 8 July 2009 (UTC)

It looks as though the transliteration used was there from the creation of the article in 2004. And yes, quite inappropriately rude. Whatever version is used, it ought to be the same in the article title and the text and infobox. I've moved it to Alekandr Ostrovsky, since that is the form given in the Cambridge Guide to Theatre, ed. Banham (1998, 829). DionysosProteus (talk) 13:47, 6 August 2009 (UTC)


 * I hope you meant you moved it to Aleksandr Ostrovsky. Ah, I see you did.  --  JackofOz (talk) 12:40, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Yes, it was a typo that I failed to notice, and then proceeded to cut and paste in several places, annoyingly enough. I think they're all corrected now. DionysosProteus (talk) 16:44, 7 August 2009 (UTC)

Revisited
And now it's been moved to the completely made-up-out-some-editor's-own-head version Aleksander Ostrovsky. This is a hybrid of the strict romanisation (Aleksandr) and the usual English equivalent (Alexander). It has no basis that can be supported, and it must make way for either Aleksandr or Alexander. -- Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   10:46, 2 February 2010 (UTC)


 * I've moved it to Aleksandr. --   Jack of Oz    ... speak! ...   09:11, 31 March 2010 (UTC)

Dear colleagues! I'm Russian and I know that the best English variant of Russian name "Александр" is Alexander (the same name: Alexander Pushkin). JeanneMish (talk) 12:02, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

Corrections
Removed some miraculously erroneous statements
 * Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (opera) is based on Nikolai Leskov's story
 * Groza (The Tempest) is not set in Moscow, but on the coast of Volga as the first line of the play says.
 * Description of Kuzma Minin as a butcher downplays his role as an elected city aldermen and partner in salt mining. I'd leave this statement since too much of his identity is based on conjecture by historians. NVO 19:14, 3 April 2007 (UTC)

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Article expansion - images
thumb|left|200px|Rybakov (as Bolshov) & Maksheev (as Rispolozhensky) in Ostrovsky's "Svoy ludy - sochtemsya" (It's a Family Affair, or The Bankrupt) in Maly theater (1892)

I've replaced this with a portrait for the moment - we'll have to find a spot for this. There are more images available. I Never  Cry  04:37, 22 July 2012 (UTC)

crying out
This article is crying for a section with a list of Ostrovsky's plays, like the sections in other articles listing an author's works. 100.15.120.162 (talk) 17:53, 29 January 2016 (UTC)

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