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Nikolai Melgunov
Nikolai Alexandrovich Melgunov (russian: link=no, Николай Александрович Мельгунов; April 1804, – 16 February 1867) was a Russian writer, publicist, translator from German and French, and music critic, described as one of the most prolific and diverse authors of his time. Biography Melgunov was born in village Petrovskoye in Oryol Governorate to a noble family of a retired army officer, and received good home education.Evseyeva, M.KMelgunov's biographyat The Russian Writers Biographical dictionary // Русские писатели. 11–20 вв. Биографический словарь. Том 3. М., "Советская энциклопедия", 1994 In his teens he was sent to Kharkov to be tutored for the university exams and spent there three years which he later remembered with great affection. In 1818 the 14-year-old published his first translation, from French (''The Coming of Spring'', from Bernardin de Saint-Pierre), in ''Ukrainsky Vestn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Livensky District
Livensky District (russian: Ли́венский райо́н) is an administrativeLaw #522-OZ and municipalLaw #442-OZ district (raion), one of the twenty-four in Oryol Oblast, Russia. It is located in the southwest of the oblast. The area of the district is . Its administrative center is the town of Livny (which is not administratively a part of the district). Population: 32,791 ( 2010 Census); Administrative and municipal status Within the framework of administrative divisions, Livensky District is one of the twenty-four in the oblast. The town of Livny serves as its administrative center, despite being incorporated separately as a town of oblast significance—an administrative unit with the status equal to that of the districts. As a municipal division, the district is incorporated as Livensky Municipal District. The town of oblast significance of Livny is incorporated separately from the district as Livny Urban Okrug.Law #449-OZ Notable people * Nikolai Nikolaevich Pol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teleskop
''Teleskop'' (russian: Телескоп) was a Russian literary, philosophical and political magazine published in Moscow in 1831-1836 by Nikolai Nadezhdin, who was also its editor-in-chief. Originally a fortnightly publication, it became a weekly in 1834. Another Nadezhin's project, ''Molva'' (Молва, Rumour, 1831-1986), originally a 'news and fashion' magazine, in 1932 became a newspaper and literary supplement to ''Teleskop''. Among the authors whose works appeared in ''Teleskop'' regularly, were Mikhail Pogodin, Stepan Shevyryov, Alexander Pushkin, Fyodor Tyutchev, Alexander Polezhayev, Nikolai Stankevich and Alexey Koltsov. Vissarion Belinsky joined in 1833 to become a year later Nadezhdin's co-editor. In 1836 the magazine published Pyotr Chaadaev Pyotr or Petr Yakovlevich Chaadayev (russian: Пётр Я́ковлевич Чаада́ев; also spelled Chaadaev, or Čaadajev; 7 June 7 May Old Style1794 – 26 April 4 April O.S. 4 (four) is a number, numeral and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Von Benckendorff
Konstantin Alexander Karl Wilhelm Christoph Graf von Benckendorff (russian: Александр Христофорович Бенкендорф, Alexander Khristoforovich Benkendorf, – ) was a Baltic German Cavalry General and statesman, Adjutant General of Tsar Alexander I, a commander of ''partisan'' (''Kossak irregular'') units during the War of 1812–13. However, he is most frequently remembered for his later role, under Tsar Nicholas I, as the founding head of the Gendarmes and the Secret Police in Imperial Russia. Family and career Alexander von Benckendorff was born into the Baltic German noble Benckendorff family in Reval (Tallinn in present-day Estonia), son of General Baron (12 January 1749, Friedrichsham – 10 June 1823, Kolga), who served as the military governor of Livonia, and of his wife Baroness Anna Juliane Charlotte Schilling von Canstatt (31 July 1744, Thalheim – 11 March 1797, Riga), who held a high position at the Romanov court as senior lady- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ksenofont Polevoy
Ksenofont Alexeyevich Polevoy (russian: Ксенофонт Алексеевич Полевой, 1 August 1801, Irkutsk, Imperial Russia, – 21 April 1867, Tyukhmenevo, Smolensk Governorate, Imperial Russia) was a Russian writer, literary critic, journalist, publisher and translator. He was the younger brother of the writers Yekaterina Avdeyeva and Nikolai Polevoy. Among the biographies Ksenofont Polevoy authored were those of Mikhail Lomonosov (1836, praised by Vissarion Belinsky) and Ivan Khemnitser (1838), as well as his brother, whom he idolized (''The Notes on the Life and Works by Nikolai Polevoy'', 1888). In 1835–1839 he translated from French 16 volumes of ''Memoires ou souvenirs historiques'' (1831) by Laure Junot Laure may refer to: * ''Laure'' (film), a 1976 Italian erotic film in the Emmanuelle universe * '' Doxocopa laure'', commonly known as the Laure, a butterfly People * Laura (given name) (French variant) * Laure (art model) (fl. 1859–1867), Fr . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Faddey Bulgarin
Thaddeus Venediktovich Bulgarin (russian: Фаддей Венедиктович Булгарин; Polish Jan Tadeusz Krzysztof Bułharyn, – ), was a Russian writer, journalist and publisher of Polish ancestry. In addition to his newspaper work, he rejuvenated the Russian novel, and published the first theatrical almanac in Russian. During his life, his novels were translated and published in English, French, German, Swedish, Polish, and Czech. He served as a soldier under Napoleon, and in later life as an agent of the Czar's secret police. As a writer his self-imposed mission was to popularize the authoritarian policies of Alexander I of Russia, Alexander I and Nicholas I of Russia, Nicholas I. Life and career Bulgarin was born into a noble Poles, Polish family near Minsk, Belarus (then Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth). His father, one of Kosciuszko's associates, was exiled to Siberia for having assassinated a Russian general. Bulgarin was educated in a Saint Petersburg, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Severnaya Ptchela
''Northern Bee'' (russian: Северная пчела) was a semi-official Russian political and literary newspaper published in St. Petersburg from 1825 to 1864. It was an unofficial organ of Section Three (the Third Section of His Imperial Majesty's Own Chancellery) – the secret police. ''Northern Bee'' was founded by the reactionary writer (and police informer) Thaddeus Bulgarin in 1825. In 1831 through 1849 he published it in conjunction with Nikolai Grech. From 1825 to 1831 it came out three times a week, then daily after that. The paper was pitched toward readers who belonged to the middle classes (the serving gentry, provincial landlords, officials, merchants, burghers). In addition to domestic and foreign news, literature, and criticism, the paper printed a mix of inspirational stories and philosophical essays, bibliographies, and fashion pieces. At first the paper showed a liberal bent, printing the works of Pushkin, Kondraty Ryleyev, and Fyodor Glinka. But after the D ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
