Ivan Ivanovich Panayev

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Iwan Iwanowitsch Panajew (portrait from the 1850s)

Iwan Iwanowitsch Panajew ( Russian Ива́н Ива́нович Пана́ев , scientific transliteration Ivan Ivanovič Panaev ; * March 15 July / March 27,  1812 greg. In Saint Petersburg ; † February 18 jul. / March 2,  1862 greg. In Saint Petersburg) was a Russian writer, literary critic, journalist and editor.

life and work

Panayev, son of wealthy parents, attended a boarding school for young noblemen, the Blagorodni Pansion , in Moscow from 1824 to 1830 . He then went to Saint Petersburg, where he was employed in the civil service until 1844, most of which was in the Ministry of Education. He had already published some poems in the 1830s, but then turned to prose, initially mainly out of admiration for the popular writer Alexander Bestuschew . Panayev's first work, Powest Spal'nia svetskoi shenshchiny (1835), was a romantic fantasy about a misunderstood poet who falls in love with a society lady. The following year the second work followed, Ona budet sčastliva (1836). The two stories found readers and Panayev's career began.

In 1837 Panayev married Avdotja Brjanskaya , who became a well-known writer and left widely acclaimed memoirs. Together they ran a salon where u. a. Fyodor Dostoyevsky , Ivan Turgenev , Lev Tolstoy , Ivan Goncharov , Alexander Herzen , Vissarion Belinsky and Nikolai Chernyshevsky frequented. Dostoevsky read from his first novel, Poor People , in the Panajew's salon in 1845 .

Acquaintance with Belinsky gave Panayev's career a further boost. From 1839 to 1846 he published his work in the important literary journal Otetschestvennje Sapiski ( Отечественные записки ). In 1844 he gave up his civil service to devote himself exclusively to writing.

Together with Nikolai Nekrasov , Panayev acquired the literary magazine Sovremennik ( Современник ) founded by Pushkin in 1846 and made it the most influential liberal journal in Russia. In the 1850s he campaigned for the emancipation of women with his publications .

Works (selection)

Novels

  • L'vy v provintsii ( Львы в провинции , 1852)

Stories (Powest)

  • Spal'nia svetskoi shenshchiny ( Спальня светской женщины , 1835)
  • Ona budet sčastliva ( Она будет счастлива , 1836)
  • Prekrasnyj čelovek ( Прекрасный человек , 1840)
  • Onagr ( Онагр , 1841)
  • Acton ( Актеон , 1842)
  • Mamen'kin synok ( Маменькин сынок , 1845)
  • Rodstvenniki ( Родственники , 1847)

More work

  • Literaturnaja tlja ( Литературная тля , Satire, 1843)
  • Opyt o chlyščach ( Опыт о хлыщах , essay cycle, 1854–57)
  • Literaturnye vospominaniia ( Литературные воспоминания , 1861)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Ruth Sobel: Panaev's “The Onager” . A Hybrid Between Society Tale and Physiological Sketch. In: Neil Cornwell (Ed.): The Society Tale in Russian Literature . From Odoevskii to Tolstoy. Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta 1998, ISBN 90-420-0329-4 , pp. 73‒84 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  2. ↑ a b Kenneth A. Lantz: The Dostoevsky Encyclopedia . Greenwood Press, 2004, ISBN 0-313-30384-3 , pp. 303 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Ruth Sobel: Panaev's “The Onager” . A Hybrid Between Society Tale and Physiological Sketch. In: Neil Cornwell (Ed.): The Society Tale in Russian Literature . From Odoevskii to Tolstoy. Editions Rodopi, Amsterdam, Atlanta 1998, ISBN 90-420-0329-4 , pp. 76 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  4. ↑ Sovremennik . In: Tracy Chevalier (Ed.): Encyclopedia of the Essay . Fitzroy Dearborn, Chicago 1997, ISBN 1-884964-30-3 , pp. 1773 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search - USA ).
personal data
SURNAME Panayev, Ivan Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Пана́ев, Ива́н Ива́нович (Russian); Panaev, Ivan Ivanovič
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer and publicist
DATE OF BIRTH March 27, 1812
PLACE OF BIRTH St. Petersburg
DATE OF DEATH March 2, 1862
Place of death St. Petersburg