Sergei Timofejewitsch Aksakow

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Sergei Aksakov (painting by Vasily Perow , 1872)

Sergey Aksakov ( Russian Сергей Тимофеевич Аксаков , scientific. Transliteration Sergei Aksakov Timofeevic ; born September 20, jul. / 1. October  1791 greg. In Ufa , † April 30 jul. / 12. May  1859 greg. In Moscow ) was a Russian writer . He is the father of the two Slavophile writers Iwan Aksakow and Konstantin Aksakow .

Life

Aksakov came from eastern Russia, a landscape that he has repeatedly described in his works. In his childhood or shortly before that, the then still untouched areas were colonized and settled by Russians. Aksakov met the original inhabitants, especially the Bashkirs and Mordvins , more often.

After an ailing childhood, he attended high school in Kazan and, from 1805, the newly founded university . He was enthusiastic about the theater and took sides against Nikolai Karamsin , a writer who was regarded as old-fashioned . Aksakow became a supporter of the writer and national education minister Alexander Schischkow , who campaigned against Karamzinian mannerism and for the language of Russian folk poetry.

In 1807 Aksakov went to Saint Petersburg , in 1812 to Moscow, where he married Olga Semjonovna Saplatina. He was happily married to her on his estate in Aksakowo in the Orenburg governorate . This marriage had four sons and five daughters.

In 1826 Aksakov moved to Moscow with his family. Since the income from his estate was not sufficient, he accepted an official position as censor through the mediation of his patron Shishkov . However , he was too indulgent to the regime of Tsar Nicholas I , which is why he was soon released. In 1833 Aksakow became an inspector, in 1835 director of the field measurement school in Moscow. After his father died in 1837, Aksakow was able to live on his estate from 1838 onwards, free from professional obligations. As a patriarchal landlord, he indulged his passions of fishing and hunting and ran a hospitable house where literary and scientifically interested personalities met. The acquaintance with Nikolai Gogol , who encouraged Aksakov to write, was of particular importance here .

In 1843 Aksakov gave up his house in Moscow and moved to the Abramzewo country estate near Moscow. As he was becoming increasingly blind, he dictated his books to his daughter Wera, most of which were now being written in the rural tranquility of his old age. Aksakov wrote a few books from the memory of his youth that earned him great prestige. He died at the age of 67.

reception

A museum in honor of Aksakov is located in Abramzewo near Moscow in the writer's former home.

Works

Aksakov's importance for Russian literature is based primarily on his childhood memories and reports about his family. The events depicted from a child's point of view are masterpieces not only of Russian literature, but also of world literature. The presentation is realistic, but always amiable. The author's love of nature is expressed again and again.

  • The snow storm (Метель / Metel)
  • Angling Records (Записки об уженье рыбы / Sapiski ob uschenje ryby), Moscow 1847
  • Records of a hunter from the Orenburg governorate (Записки ружейного охотника Оренбургской губернии / Sapiski ruscheinowo ochotnika Orenburgskoi gubernii), Moscow 1852
  • A family chronicle (Семейная хроника / Semeinaja chronika), Moscow 1856
  • Memories (Воспоминания / Vospominanija), Moscow 1856
  • Bagrow's grandson's childhood (Детские годы Багрова-внука / Detskie gody Bagrowa-wnuka), Moscow 1858

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personal data
SURNAME Aksakow, Sergei Timofejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Аксаков, Сергей Тимофеевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian writer
DATE OF BIRTH October 1, 1791
PLACE OF BIRTH Ufa
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1859
Place of death Moscow