Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev

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Iwan Iwanowitsch Dmitrijew,
portrayed by Vasily Tropinin in 1835

Iwan Iwanowitsch Dmitrijew ( Russian Иван Иванович Дмитриев , scientific transliteration Ivan Ivanovič Dmitriev ; * September 10th July / September 21st,  1760 greg. In the village of Bogorodskoje, Kazan Governorate ; † October 3rd jul. / October 15,  1837 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian statesman and poet of sentimentalism .

Life

Ivan was born in the Bogorodskoye estate of the Dmitrievs near Syzran in what is now the Samara region. He grew up there, raised by tutors. The boy later attended private schools in Kazan and Simbirsk .

While fleeing from Pugachev , the family lost their property and became impoverished in Moscow. So Ivan became a soldier; joined the Semyonovskoye bodyguard regiment near Moscow in 1772 . Ivan Dmitriev graduated school officer of the regiment, served from the NCO (1776), via the Sergeant (1778) for Hauptmann up and quit the military service as Oberst .

Unjustly accused of participating in an assassination attempt on the tsar in 1797 , after clearing up the false accusation, his career at court took off. Ivan Dmitriev became a Privy Councilor . In 1806 Alexander I made him a senator . From 1810 he sat on the Council of State , was Minister of Justice from 1810 to 1814 , after which he withdrew completely from civil service and emerged as a poet in the last two decades of his life.

Ivan Dmitrijew became popular as a translator ( Molière , Alexander Pope , Edmé Boursault , ETA Hoffmann , Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian , Antoine-Vincent Arnault , Ponce-Denis Écouchard-Lebrun , Jean-Jacques Boisard (1744-1833) and Pierre-Jean de Béranger ), poet, fable poet and author of Russian fairy tales. Many of his poetic works are available as songs. For example, the critic Dmitriev wrote About the Russian Comedy . Standing in a row with Karamsin , Batjuschkow and Pushkin , he is one of the great Russian poets of his time. In 1826 his memoir Взгляд на мою жизнь (A look at my life) was published in Moscow .

Ivan Dmitriev found his final resting place in the cemetery of the Donskoy monastery .

In 1866 Pyotr Vyazemsky remembers the poet.

Award

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian Богородское
  2. ↑ Russian Pyotr Vyazemsky: Iwan Iwanowitsch Dmitrijew
personal data
SURNAME Dmitrijew, Ivan Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Dmitriev, Ivan Ivanovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian statesman and poet
DATE OF BIRTH September 21, 1760
PLACE OF BIRTH Bogorodskoye village, Kazan Governorate
DATE OF DEATH October 15, 1837
Place of death Moscow