Vladimir Pavlovich Titov (russian: Владимир Павлович Титов; — ), better known under the pseudonym Tit Kosmokratov (russian: Тит Космократов), was a Russian writer, statesman,

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. As a writer he is best known for the novella ''The Remote House on Vasilyevsky Island'' (Уединённый домик на Васильевском), which was influenced by the writings of Aleksandr Pushkin.

Biography

Vladimir Titov was born on in the selo of Noviki,

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Ryazan Oblast Ryazan Oblast ( rus, Рязанская область, r=Ryazanskaya oblast, p=rʲɪˈzanskəjə ˈobləsʲtʲ) is a federal subjects of Russia, federal subject of Russia (an oblast). Its administrative center is the types of inhabited localities ...

. graduated at the Moscow University Noble Boarding School and the

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. He trained with well-known writers

Vladimir Odoevsky Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky (russian: Влади́мир Фёдорович Одо́евский, p=ɐˈdojɪfskʲɪj; Владимир Федорович Одоевский. Библиографический указатель. Энц ...

and

Stepan Shevyryov Stepan Petrovich Shevyryov (russian: Степан Петрович Шевырёв, 30 (18) October 1806 in Saratov, Russian Empire – 20 (8) May 1864 in Paris, France) was a conservative Russian literary historian and poet, a virulent critic o ...

. From 1823 to 1828 he served at the chancery of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then in the Asian department. In his youth he was active in literature. With Odoevsky, Shevyryov,

Dmitry Venevitinov Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov (russian: link=no, Дми́трий Влади́мирович Веневи́тинов; – ) was a minor Russian Romantic poet who died (perhaps committed suicide) at the age of 21, carrying with him one of the ...

and others he participated at the philosophical circle Lyubomudry, which existed from 1823 to 1825. He knew Pushkin,

Pyotr Vyazemsky Prince Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky ( rus, Пëтр Андре́евич Вя́земский, p=ˈpʲɵtr ɐnˈdrʲejɪvʲɪt͡ɕ ˈvʲæzʲɪmskʲɪj; 23 July 1792 – 22 November 1878) was a Russian Imperial poet, a leading personality of ...

Vasily Zhukovsky Vasily Andreyevich Zhukovsky (russian: Василий Андреевич Жуковский, Vasiliy Andreyevich Zhukovskiy; – ) was the foremost Russian poet of the 1810s and a leading figure in Russian literature in the first half of the 19 ...

and many more of the leading writers. His fantastic novella ''The Remote House on Vasilyevsky Island'' was published in the almanach ''The Northern Flowers of 1829'' (Северные цветы на 1829). As Tit Kosmokratov he also wrote ''The Monastery of St. Brigit'' (Монастырь св. Бригиты), issued in the almanach ''The Northern Flowers of 1829''. Also, Titov is the author of the

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about the Russo-Turkish War from 1828 to 1829, ''Wrongly Stories of Cicerone del K...o'' (Неправдоподобные рассказы чичероне дель К…о) (1837). Titov later served as General-Councilor of the Danubian Principalities, and was an

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to Constantinople and

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. From 1873 he commissioned the

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. He died on , in

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References

* Bikerman, I., "Пушкинские заметки. Кто такой Вершнев?": ''Пушкин и его современники'', pp. 19–20, St. Petersburg, 1914 * Chereysky, L. A.
Титов В. П.
// Черейский Л. А. Пушкин и его окружение'', 2nd edition. Leningrad, 1989. * Chertkov, L. N.

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'', Moscow, 1962—1978, volume 7, 1972. {{DEFAULTSORT:Titov, Vladimir Pavlovich 1807 births 1891 deaths People from Spassky District, Ryazan Oblast People from Ryazan Governorate Russian writers Russian diplomats Moscow State University alumni Ambassadors of the Russian Empire to the Ottoman Empire