Plato Petrovich Beketov

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Platon Petrowitsch Beketow (1818, engraver AA Ossipow after an original by Friedrich Kühnel )

Platon Petrowitsch Beketow ( Russian Платон Петрович Бекетов ; * November 11th July / November 22nd  1761 greg. In Simbirsk ; † January 6th July / January 18,  1836 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian publisher .

Life

Beketow came from a family of Turkish origin. His father Pyotr Afanasjewitsch Beketow was a landowner and married the second marriage to the daughter Irina Ivanovna (1741-1823) of millionaire Ivan Semyonovich Myasnikov , who became the owner of a huge fortune. Beketov's uncle Nikita Afanasjewitsch Beketow was Empress Elisabeth's favorite .

Beketow graduated from boarding school in Simbirsk and Kazan together with his cousin Ivan Ivanovich Dmitriev . When the army of Jemelyan Ivanovich Pugachev approached in autumn 1773, the Beketov family moved to Moscow. There Beketow was further educated from 1774-1776 in the boarding school of the professor of Moscow University Johann Matthias Schaden , as well as his distant relative Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamsin . In September 1776 Beketov joined the Semyonovsky bodyguard regiment in St. Petersburg as a sergeant , which he left in January 1788 as prime major. In 1791 he entered the service of the Heraldry of the Senate in St. Petersburg.

From 1798 lived Beketov in Moscow, where he was for the collection and issuing of portraits inspired and books. In 1801 he opened his own printing house , which was considered one of the best in Moscow. Works by Russian authors were printed here, such as Mikhail Matwejewitsch Cheraskow , Ippolit Fjodorowitsch Bogdanowitsch , Nikolai Iwanowitsch Gneditsch , Wassili Andrejewitsch Schukowski , Denis Iwanowitsch Fonwisin , which he edited himself . In 1801 and 1811 he published works by Alexander Nikolayevich Radishchev , despite the prohibition . In his work, Beketov tried to follow Nikolai Ivanovich Novikov's approach .

Beketov set himself the task of publishing an anthology with portraits of outstanding personalities in Russia . To this end, he put together a collection of several hundred authentic portraits in the form of paintings and graphics , and spared no expense. For the making of prints he established a school of engraving one in which own and under the supervision of the engraver Alexei Osipov Agapijewitsch (1770-1850) of other purchased serf peasants more than 300 plates engraved. In 1801 he published the pantheon of Russian authors in the form of 4 booklets with 5 portraits per page and Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamsin's text. In the following 20 years he prepared a complete edition in 4 parts with 50 portraits each. However, only the first part appeared, which was not accepted by the public and was only printed in small numbers. After Beketov's death, the precious collection of 306 copper plates was sold for 8500 rubles to the Kireevsky brothers, who then published only a small part.

Apart from the portraits, Beketov published a description in Views of the celebration of the wedding of Tsar Michael I with Yevdokia Lukyanovna Streschnewa in 1626 in 1810 . In 1811, Beketov was elected chairman of the Moscow Society of History and Russian Antiquities.

In 1812 a fire caused great damage in Beketow's printing works and also in his library and collection. Beketov then withdrew to his dacha at the Simonov Monastery on the outskirts of Moscow, where he lived impoverished until his death. He held his office as chairman of the Moscow Society for History and Russian Antiquities with great energy until 1823. Around 1820 he had a son with a serf who was called Alexander Ketow. Beketov gave his son a good education. Alexander Ketow learned drawing from Alexander Petrowitsch Nekrasow and engraving in the engraving school from AA Osipow. Ketov loved the hunt and was allowed to hunt in the Tyufelewa grove, which belonged to Beketov's brother-in-law Alexander Dmitrijewitsch Balaschow .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Большая российская энциклопедия: БЕКЕ́ТОВ Платон Петрович (accessed November 25, 2019).
  2. ↑ a b c d Бекетов (Платон Петрович) . In: Brockhaus-Efron . tape III , 1891, p. 341 ( Wikisource [accessed November 25, 2019]).
  3. ↑ Бекетов, Платон Петрович . In: Русский биографический словарь А. А. Половцова . tape 2 , 1900, p. 663–664 ( Wikisource [accessed November 26, 2019]).
  4. ↑ a b c d Словарь русского языка XVIII века: Бекетов Платон Петрович (accessed November 25, 2019).
  5. ↑ a b Great Soviet Encyclopedia : Бекетов Платон Петрович.
  6. ↑ a b Чусова М .: Бекетовы и Селивановские в Симоновой слободе . In: осковский журнал . November 1, 2000 ( [1] [accessed November 26, 2019]).
  7. ↑ Осипов Алексей Агапиевич (accessed November 25, 2019).
  8. ↑ Beketov PP: Собрание портретов россиян, знаменитых по своим деяниям, воинским и гражданским, по учености, сочинениям, дарованиям или коих имена почему другому сделались известными свету , с приложением их кратких жизнеописаний . Moscow 1821.
personal data
SURNAME Beketov, Plato Petrovich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Бекетов, Платон Петрович (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-Russian publisher
DATE OF BIRTH November 22, 1761
PLACE OF BIRTH Simbirsk
DATE OF DEATH January 18, 1836
Place of death Moscow