BOGDANOVSKI Neil Ivanovich

(1847, Smolensk - after 1915)
He studied at Smolensk, and then in high school Simbirsk. Artistic career began in 1866. in Smolensk in the theater Socrates Prozorovskiy (stage name "Neil Merya"), worked in the theater of Orel, Tula, Murom, Arzamas, Odessa, in a Moscow theater F. Korsch. Kept Private Company in Vyatka. Primary Role - comic (mayor in the "Inspector" by Nikolai Gogol, etc.). In recent years he lived in Novgorod, published the newspaper "Volkhov leaf". Served in the press under the pseudonym "Elder Neal". He left memories that contain information about the Smolensk middle of last century.

Vol.: Scene - my cross. - T. 1.2 .- Novgorod, 1914, raid on Avvu. Demonic obsession. (From the monastic life). - Novgorod, 1909; Moscow outline of ostrozaraznogo barracks Falconer Hospital. - Novgorod, 1910.

Lit.: Region Smolensk, 1997. -? 3-4; 14-19.