Lev Sergeevich Pushkin

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Lev Pushkin,
portrayed by Aleksander Orłowski around 1820
Lev Pushkin,
drawn in Odessa in 1849

Lev Sergeyevich Pushkin ( Russian Лев Сергеевич Пушкин ; born April 17, jul. / 29. April  1805 greg. In Moscow , † July 19 . Jul / 31 July  1852 . Greg in Odessa ), the brother of Alexander Pushkin , was one of the two sons of the couple Nadezhda and Sergei Pushkin .

After the fire in Moscow in 1814, the family moved from Nizhny Novgorod via Warsaw to Saint Petersburg . Lev attended the Petri School there from 1815 , then the Tsarskoje Selo Lyceum and finally the First Classical Gymnasium at the university, founded in 1817 . Lew was expelled from the latter educational institution in 1821. He had taken part in a protest against the dismissal of the teacher of literature Küchelbecker .

During Alexander Pushkin's exile to southern Russia from 1820 to 1824, Lev managed literary affairs for his brother in Petersburg as a secretary, so to speak - for example, negotiations with publishers, etc.

From November 1824 Lev Pushkin worked for two years in the diplomatic service and then took part in the Russian-Persian War as a flag junior in the 17th Nizhny Novgorod Dragoon Regiment. After the end of the war, on leave until May 1831, he joined the Finnish Dragoon Regiment as a staff captain , entered the Polish-Russian War in 1830/1831 and returned from Warsaw to Petersburg in the autumn of 1833. Initially employed as a civil servant in the Ministry of the Interior there, he joined the troops in the Caucasus in 1836 - this time as a captain.

In 1842 he finally quit military service as a major and worked again as a civil servant - now at the Odessa port toll.

Lev Pushkin married in 1843 Jelisaweta Alexandrowna Sagrjaschskaja (1823-1898), daughter of Alexander Michailowitsch Sagrjaschski, civil governor of Siberia . The Sagrjaschskis were relatives of his sister-in-law Natalja . Lev Pushkin had three children with Jelisaveta.

  • Olga (1844-1923),
  • Anatoly (1846-1903),
  • Maria (1849-1928).

Lev Pushkin died of dropsy and was buried in the Odessa Old Christian Cemetery.

Lev's letters and memories of brother Alexander are kept in the Pushkin House in Petersburg .

Alexander Pushkin dedicated two poems to his brother Lev.

  • 1823: Брат милый, отроком расстался ты со мной ( Dear brother, you broke up with me ),
  • 1824: Послание к Л. Пушкину ( message to L. Pushkin ).

Honors

Web links

Commons : Lev Pushkin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Russian ru: Школа № 321 (Санкт-Петербург)
  2. ↑ Russian ru: Нижегородский 17-й драгунский полк
  3. ↑ Russian ru: Отдельный Кавказский корпус (Российская империя)
  4. ↑ Russian Елизавета Александровна Загряжская
  5. ↑ Russian ru: Старое христианское кладбище (Одесса)
  6. ↑ Russian ru: Пушкинский Дом
  7. ↑ Russian Олег Губарь
personal data
SURNAME Pushkin, Lev Sergeyevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Лев Сергеевич Пушкин (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Alexander Pushkin's younger brother
DATE OF BIRTH April 29, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH Moscow
DATE OF DEATH July 31, 1852
Place of death Odessa