Apollo Alexandrovich Grigoryev

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Apollo Alexandrovich Grigoryev

Apollon Alexandrovich Grigoryev ( Russian Аполлон Александрович Григорьев * July 16 . Jul / 28. July  1822 greg. In Moscow , † September 25 jul. / 7. October  1864 greg. In Saint Petersburg ) was a Russian poet and literary critic .

Life

Apollon Grigoryev was the son of a secretary of the Moscow Magistrate. From 1838 to 1842 he studied law at the University of Moscow . He then got a job in the Senate, but soon gave it up in order to devote himself entirely to literature. At first he was a follower of Hegel , but later orientated himself more towards Schelling . At an early stage he showed great respect for German poetry and worked as a translator from Herder , Goethe , Schiller and Heine into Russian. For a short while he was a civil servant in Saint Petersburg. In the following years he led the life of a bohemian . He distinguished himself as a poet and important literary critic, but could hardly gain influence in the latter discipline during his lifetime. In 1846 he published a volume of his poetry. In 1851 he joined the “young editorial team” of the scientific-literary journal Moskvitjanin published in Moscow , which was oriented towards Slavophiles . Grigoryev wrote for this journal until it was discontinued in 1856. From 1861 he was co-author of the Saint Petersburg monthly Vremja , which was published by Fyodor Dostoyevsky and his brother Mikhail . After that he worked as a theater critic for several magazines. Due to his alcoholism , however, his health was in poor health and died in St. Petersburg in October 1864 as a result of his desolate lifestyle. He was buried in the Mitrofanievsky cemetery.

Grigoryev combined emotional intensity and poetic reflection in his poetry and influenced Alexander Alexandrowitsch Blok , for example in his volume of poems Faina (1906-08). In addition, over a period of 20 years, he has reviewed all the latest appearances in literature in the leading Russian journals and published several critical treatises of value. A selection of these was published by Strachow after Grigoryev's death under the title Ssotschinénija Apollóna Grigorjewa ( Works by Apollon Grigorjew , Petersburg 1876). Initially a partisan of the Slavophiles, he later championed the general human cultural ideas. He is neither a supporter of the purely aesthetic nor the historical school of literary criticism, but, as he puts it, the representative of an “organic” criticism based on German idealism . According to Grigoryev, art is the reflection of the ideal. The laws by which Critique explains this mirror image are not drawn from the mirror image itself, which as an appearance is always more or less inadequate, but from the essence of the ideal. There is therefore an organic relationship between art and criticism in the knowledge of the ideal, and criticism must therefore be just as organic as art itself, in that it analytically spiritualizes the same organic elements of life to which art synthetically gives flesh and blood.

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personal data
SURNAME Grigoryev, Apollon Alexandrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Григорьев, Аполлон Александрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian poet and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH October 7, 1864
Place of death St. Petersburg