Man of the day: Alexander Ostrovsky
On April 12, 1823, the famous playwright Alexander Ostrovsky was born. Personal business Alexander Nikolaevich Ostrovsky (1823–1886) was born in Moscow, in Zamoskvorechye, which was then the merchant district. His grandfather and his mother belonged to the spiritual estate, his father, Nikolai Fedorovich, graduated from the Theological Academy, but became not a priest, but a judicial official.