A friend of honest people. Selected works

Denis Ivanovich Fonvizin (1745-1792) is considered the creator of Russian household comedy. But for Fonvizin, life was both a form and a condition for political life, therefore, solving the issues of everyday life, the writer spoke about the socio-political structure of the country. This gives the creativity of Fonvizin a greater internal integrity: each work complements something else, and only surrounded by other works of his comedy "undergrowth" and "forelink" will be understandable to the reader. Of great importance for understanding Fonvizin are his late works, especially the autobiography "sincere recognition in my affairs and thoughts", in which he summed up the results of his life