Jakow Petrovich de Balmen

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Yakov Petrovich de Balmen ( Russian Яков Петрович де Бальмен , Ukrainian Яків Петрович де Бальмен Jakiw Petrowytsch de Balmen * July 16 jul. / 28. July  1813 greg. In Lynowyzja , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire , † July 14 jul. / July 26,  1845 Greg. In the Caucasus ) was a Russian- Ukrainian artist and writer and officer in the Russian Army .

Image from the article on Count Jakow Petrovich de Balmen in the fourth volume of the “Militar Encyclopedia” by Iwan Sytin published in Saint Petersburg in 1911

Life

Jakow de Balmen was the grandson of the Russian general and governor general Anton Bogdanowitsch de Balmen ( Антон Богданович де Бальмен ; 1741–1790) , who came from an old Scottish noble family . He came to Lynowyzja, Ujesd Pirjatin , in what is now the Ukrainian Oblast Chernihiv as the eldest son of retired Guard Captain Peter de Balmen and his wife Sophia, daughter of the Russian major general and senator Alexander Alexandrovich Bashilov ( Алекса́вндр Алекса .́ловндр АлексачиндБрош77 ) World. From 1830 he attended, together with Nikolai Gogol , Jewhen Hrebinka and Oleksandr Afanassjew-Tschuschbynskyj , the high school of higher sciences in Nischyn , where he discovered his love for the Ukraine. His first literary work was the work Exile ( Изгнанник ), in which he wrote down his thoughts on the Decembrist uprising. He also wrote The Suicide , The Desert , and other smaller works.

Jakow entered the military in 1832. In June 1843 he first met the Ukrainian national poet Taras Shevchenko at a ball in Mojssivka and became his good friend. He then met him several times with the Sakrewskyj brothers ( Закревський ) in Berezova Rudka , with the Repin family, and visited the poet Viktor Sabila with him . Together with Mikhail Sergejewitsch Baschilow ( Михаил Сергеевич Башилов ; 1821-1870) he illustrated the Polish-language edition of Shevchenko's collection of poems Kobzar . He also created four albums with illustrations of Ukrainian and Russian life and drew illustrations for Shevchenko's poems Hajdamaken and Hamalija . De Balmen fought in 1845 as an adjutant to General Alexander von Lüders during the Dargo Campaign of the Caucasus War in the Caucasus, where he was on July 14th . / July 26, 1845 greg. fell. Taras Shevchenko then dedicated his poem Caucasus to him .  

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Jakob de Balmen, a true friend of Taras Shevchenko in uahistory.com ; accessed on October 12, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  2. ↑ Entry on Jakiw de Balmen in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on October 12, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ a b c d Article on Jakow de Balmen on kobzar.info ; accessed on October 12, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ a b article on Jakow de Balmen on incognita.day.kiev.ua ; accessed on October 12, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  5. ↑ Caucasus by Taras Shevchenko ; accessed on October 12, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Balmen, Jakow Petrovich de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бальмен, Яков Петрович де (Russian); Бальмен, Яків Петрович де (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian-Ukrainian artist and writer and officer in the Russian Army
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1813
PLACE OF BIRTH Lynowyzja , Poltava Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH July 26, 1845
Place of death Caucasus