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Nicholas Evreinoff

Nicolas Evreïnoff is a Russian playwright and writer, theater theorist and historian. Nicolas Evreïnoff was the friend of Georges Gurdjieff and the lover of Anna Boutkovskaïa. He immigrated to France in 1925. He lived at No. 7 rue Boileau (16th arrondissement of Paris), where a plaque pays tribute to him.

Works:

  • The Joyous Death, harlequinade in one act
  • The Comedy of Happiness, play in three acts and four scenes
  • Le Théâtre dans la vie, Paris, Stock, 1930
  • The Chief Thing: a comedy for some /A drama for others, New York, Published for The Theater Guild by Doubleday, 1926.
  • "My Life - Theater". Memories of Nikolay Evreinov. Saint-Petersburg., 2018, 204 pp. (in Russian)