Vasyl Lazarevskyi
Vasyl Matwijowytsch Lasarewskyj ( Ukrainian Василь Матвійович Лазаревський , Russian Василий Матвеевич Лазаревский Vasily Matveyevich Lazarevsky * February 26 . Jul / 10. March 1817 greg. In Hyrjawka , Ujesd Konotop , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire ; † April 28 jul. / 10 . May 1890 greg. in St. Petersburg , Russian Empire) was a Ukrainian writer and translator and Russian privy.
Life
Vasyl Lasarewskyj was born in Hyrjawka, today's Shevchenko in the Ukrainian Oblast Sumy , as the eldest son of a small aristocratic family descended from Cossacks. He was the older brother of Oleksandr Lasarewskyj .
Lazarevskyi graduated from the Kharkiv University Faculty of Law in 1841 , where he defended his doctorate as a philosophy candidate in February 1844. After completing his studies, he first worked as a provincial secretary at the Chamber of the Civil Court in Kharkiv and then moved to the family of the Russian general Vasily Orlov-Denisov as a home teacher .
In February 1846 he moved to Saint Petersburg, worked in the Museum of Foreign Literature ( Музее иностр. Лит-ры ) and published his first work, the novel Night in the Steppe . Due to financial difficulties, he entered the state service as college secretary and went to Orenburg as an official of the Orenburg Border Commission in May 1847 , where the Ukrainian poet Taras Shevchenko , a friend of the Lasarevskyj family, was also in exile as a soldier in the Orsk fortress . During this time he helped them financially and got them paints, pens, books and cigars, but had no direct contact with him. He only met Shevchenko personally in March 1858 after his return from exile to Saint Petersburg.
In 1848 Lazarevskyi went back to Saint Petersburg on official matters, where he met Vladimir Dal , with whose help he made a career as a government official and was appointed privy councilor in 1873 . In Petersburg he had a large circle of friends, including Marko Vovchok , Ivan Goncharov , Alexei Pissemsky , Ivan Turgenev , Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin and Grigory Danilewski ( Григорий Петрович Данилевский ), 1829–1829 . He died at the age of 73 in Saint Petersburg and was buried there in the Smolensk cemetery .
In addition to his writing activities, he published some short stories in Russian magazines and compiled a Ukrainian (unpublished) dictionary, translated the works "Othello", "King Lear" and "Macbeth" by William Shakespeare as well as French literature into Russian.
Web links
- Entry on Wassili Matwejewitsch Lasarewski in the Great Biographical Encyclopedia (2009; Russian)
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c biography Wassili Matvejewitsch Lasarewski on Lib.ru - "Collection of Classics" ; accessed on September 7, 2018 (Russian)
- ↑ a b Entry on Lazarevsky in the Encyclopedia of Ukraine ; accessed on September 7, 2018 (English)
- ↑ a b Entry on Wassyl Lasarewskyj in the Encyclopedia of the History of Ukraine ; accessed on September 7, 2018 (Ukrainian)
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| SURNAME | Lazarevskyj, Vasyl |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Lasarewskyj, Wassyl Matwijowytsch (full name); Лазаревський, Василь Матвійович (Ukrainian); Лазаревский, Василий Матвеевич (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Ukrainian writer and translator as well as Russian privy councilor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 10, 1817 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Hyrjawka , Ujesd Konotop , Chernigov Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 10, 1890 |
| Place of death | Saint Petersburg , Russian Empire |