Pogodin, Nikolai
Related Category: Russian and Eastern European Literature: Biographies
(nyĭkəlī´ pəgô´dyĭn), pseud. of
Nikolai Feodorovich Stukalov(fyô´dərəvĭch st
kä´lôf), 1900–1962, Russian dramatist. Pogodin wrote many colorful, optimistic, and popular plays generally dealing with the theme of man's conquest of the machine. In
Tempo (1930, tr. 1936), a play concerning the Five-Year-Plan period, an American engineer helps speed up tractor production. In
The Aristocrats (1935, tr. 1937) Pogodin depicts the rehabilitation of criminals in a labor camp. All of his plays are noted for their hearty good humor and reverence for the common man.
