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Kotzebue August Friedrich Ferdinand von
(1761–1819)

August Friedrich Ferdinand von Kotzebue was a German dramatist. One of Kotzebue's books was burned during the Wartburg festival in 1817. August von Kotzebue was murdered in 1819 by Karl Ludwig Sand, a militant member of the Burschenschaften. The murder of Kotzebue gave Metternich the pretext to issue the Carlsbad Decrees of 1819, which dissolved... More...

USSR, 1949, Aleksander Ostrovsky and actors