Fyodor Fyodorovich Kokoshkin Russian: Фёдор Фёдорович Кокошкин ; 1 May 1775, Moscow, Russian Empire, — 21 September 1838, Moscow) was a Russian dramatist and playwright, Moscow government official and theatre entrepreneur, the first director of the Moscow troupe of the Imperial Theatres, in 1823—1831.
The Seagull (Russian: Чайка , "Chayka " ) is a play by Russian dramatist Anton Chekhov, written in 1895 and first produced in 1896.
 "The Seagull" is generally considered to be the first of his four major plays.
 It dramatises the romantic and artistic conflicts between four characters: the famous middlebrow story writer Boris Trigorin, the ingenue Nina, the fading actress Irina Arkadina, and her son the symbolist playwright Konstantin Tréplev.
Dmitry Donskoy "(Russian: Дмитрий Донской "), also known as "The Battle of Kulikovo (Russian: Куликовская битва )" was the first opera written by Anton Rubinstein.
 It has three acts and a libretto by Count Vladimir Sollogub and Vladimir Zotov, based on a drama by Vladislav Ozerov.
 First performed in 1852, the opera, apart from its overture, is now lost.
Modest Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian: Моде́ст Ильи́ч Чайко́вский ; 13 May [O.S. 1 May] 1850 –15 January [O.S. 2 January] 1916 ) was a Russian dramatist, opera librettist and translator.
Raphael (full title: "Raphael: Musical Scenes from the Renaissance"; Russian: Рафаэль: Музыкальные сцены из эпохи Возрождения; Italian: "Raffaello"), "op."
 37, is an opera in one act by Anton Arensky.
 The libretto, by A. A. Kryukov, is based on the life of the Renaissance artist Raphael.
 The opera was composed in 1894 for the First Congress of Russian Artists and dedicated to the Moscow Society of Lovers of the Arts.
 It premiered at the Moscow Conservatory on 6 May (old calendar: 26 April), with set-design by Leonid Pasternak; Yevgeniya Mravina took the role of Fornarina, Raphael's model and mistress.
 Arensky chose a work on non-Russian subject matter and distanced himself from the nationalistic tendencies of his teacher Rimsky-Korsakov.
 "Raphael" was less well-received than its predecessor, Arensky's first opera "Dream on the Volga".
Connecticut Opera was a professional, non-profit, opera company based in Hartford, Connecticut, and a member of OPERA America.
 The company presented three fully staged opera productions during an annual season.
 It was founded in 1942 under the directorship of Frank Pandolfi and was the sixth oldest professional opera company in the United States.
 Pandolfi served as general manager of the company for 32 years and brought most of the major international opera stars of that time to Hartford.
 The first opera produced was "Carmen" which opened in the Bushnell Theatre on April 14, 1942, and starred mezzo-soprano Winifred Heidt in the title role.
 Connecticut Opera went on to feature opera stars such as Plácido Domingo, Beverly Sills, Risë Stevens, and Mary Dunleavy.
The Nose (Russian: Нос , Nos), is Shostakovich's first opera, a satirical work completed in 1928 based on Nikolai Gogol's story of the same name (1836).
Vladislav Aleksandrovich Ozerov (Russian: Владисла́в Алекса́ндрович О́зеров ) (11 October 1769 – 17 September 1816) was the most popular Russian dramatist in the first decades of the 19th century.
The Twelve Chairs (Russian: Двенадцать стульев , "Dvenadtsat stulyev") is an unfinished operetta by Dmitri Shostakovich based on the classic story of the same name, by Ilf and Petrov.
 Shostakovich announced the work in July 1939, for the Leningrad Theater of Musical Comedy.
 In October that year, he assumed he'd be finished with the operetta at the end of that year, but he never finished the work.
Nikolai Vasilievich Gogol ( ; Russian: Никола́й Васи́льевич Го́голь , "Nikolay Vasilievich Gogol"; ] ; 31 March [O.S. 19 March] 1809  – 4 March [O.S. 21 February] 1852 ) was a Russian dramatist of Ukrainian origin.

Question: The Nose is Shostakovich's first opera, based on a story of the same name by a Russian dramatist of what origin?
Answer: Ukrainian