Pavel Ivanovich Jakuschkin

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Photograph from 1859, Saint Petersburg. From left to right: Oleksandr Lasarewskyj (?), Mychajlo Lasarewskyj, Taras Shevchenko , Hryhorij Tschestachiwskyj , Pawel I. Jakuschkin

Pavel Ivanovich Yakushkin ( Russian Павел Иванович Якушкин ; born January 14 . Jul / 26. January  1822 greg. In Saburowo at Maloarkhangelsk , Oryol Governorate , Russian Empire , † January 8 jul. / 20th January  1872 greg. In Samara , government Samara , Russian Empire) was a Russian writer , ethnographic philologist, and anthropologist .

Pawel Jakuschkіn, 1850s

Life

Pawel Jakuschkіn was born in Saburowo ( Сабурово ) in the Maloarchangelsk district in 1822 as the son of a noble landowner and a serf. He was the cousin of the Decembrist Ivan Dmitrievich Yakushkin .

Jakuschkіn studied at the Faculty of Mathematics of Moscow University from 1840 . During his studies he discovered his passion for ethnography. In 1844 he published the essay “Folk tales of treasures, thieves, magicians and their deeds” in the magazine Moskvitjanin . On the advice of his mentor, the folklorist Pjotr ​​Kirejewski ( Пётр Васильевич Киреевский ; 1808–1856) he went to the central provinces of the Russian Empire between 1846 and 1849 and there collected ethnographic material and works of folk art, making him the first professional collector of folk art Folklore was. He published the result of this activity in 1860 in his collection of Russian songs, collected by Pawel Jakuschkіn . Then he was employed by the magazine Sovremennik and was in the Kharkov governorate from 1849 to 1856, teaching history and geography at district schools. He was in contact with the revolutionary London circle around Alexander Herzen . In Saint Petersburg in 1858 he befriended Taras Shevchenko, who had returned from exile . On May 29, 1861 he published an article about the stopover of the coffin of Shevchenko in Oryol on May 2, 1861 on the journey from St. Petersburg to Ukraine. During his travels through Russia he spread revolutionary propaganda among the people. He was arrested in Nizhny Novgorod in 1864 and exiled first to Saint Petersburg and then to Oryol under strict police surveillance. From there he was sent to the province of Astrakhan in 1868 and finally to Samara in 1871, where he died in early 1872 a few days before his 50th birthday.

In his work Great is the God of the Russian Land! by 1863 he revealed the unjust character of the Russian peasant reform.

Works (selection)

  • 1859 "Travel letters from the Novgorod and Pskov provinces "
  • 1861 "Travel letters from the province of Oryol "
  • 1863 "Great is the god of the Russian land!"
  • 1864 "From the stories of the Crimean War "
  • 1866 "The unrest in Russia"
  • 1868–1870 "Travel letters from the province of Astrakhan "

Web links

Commons : Pawel Iwanowitsch Jakuschkin  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pawel Iwanowitsch Jakuschkin - biography, analysis of works on licey.net ; accessed on August 21, 2018 (Russian)
  2. ^ Entry on Pawel Jakuschkіn in the Shevchenko Encyclopedia Volume 6, Page 1096; accessed on August 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  3. ↑ Pawel Jakuschkіn in the Great Encyclopedia of the Russian People on hrono.ru ; accessed on August 21, 2018 (Russian)
  4. ↑ Entry on Pawel Jakuschkіn in the Great Biographical Encyclopedia (2009); accessed on August 21, 2018 (Russian)
  5. ^ Taras Shevchenko : Documents and materials for biography. 1814-1861 / Ed. EP Kirilyuk. - K., 1982. -. P. 371-432 - name indicator on litopys.org.ua ; accessed on August 21, 2018 (Ukrainian)
personal data
SURNAME Jakuschkin, Pawel Ivanovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Якушкин, Павел Иванович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer, ethnographic philologist and anthropologist
DATE OF BIRTH January 26, 1822
PLACE OF BIRTH Saburowo near Maloarchangelsk , Orjol Governorate , Russian Empire
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1872
Place of death Samara , Samara Governorate , Russian Empire