Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub
Count Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Sollogub ( Russian Владимир Александрович Соллогуб , scientific transliteration Vladimir Alexandrovič Sollogub ; * August 8th July / August 20, 1813 greg. In Saint Petersburg ; † June 5 jul. / June 17, 1882 greg. In Bad Homburg before the height ) was a Russian writer .
His father was Count Alexander Iwanowitsch Sollogub (1787–1843), his grandfather Count Jan (Iwan) Antonowitsch Sollogub (1742 or 1747 - around 1812), adjutant general of the Polish King Stanislaus II August (1774), later major general of the Russian army (1776 ), Large landowner from the original Lithuanian nobility, who increased his vast fortune by marrying Natalja Naryshkina, a relative of the Russian tsar. Alexander Sollogub, the writer's father, quickly squandered his inheritance share of the family property and was known as a dandy in Saint Petersburg . His love for the theater, music and painting influenced the upbringing of his son Vladimir. This in turn is the great-grandfather of the French actress, screenwriter and producer Macha Méril (* 1940; pseudonym of Marija Wladimirowna Magdalene Gagarina, French Marie-Madeleine Gagarine).
He studied at the University of Dorpat , then embarked on a diplomatic career and received a post at the Russian embassy in Vienna . He was later assigned to southern Russia by the Ministry of the Interior to collect statistical information on the southern governorates . After retiring from civil service, he took up residence in Dorpat and died on June 17, 1882 in Bad Homburg. He was buried in the cemetery of the Donskoy Monastery in Moscow .
His main work is Tarantas (1845; German Leipzig 1847), a humorous description of the different social classes in the Russian provinces . In addition, Sollogub wrote numerous short stories and short stories, including the story of two galoshes and The Big World, which, according to contemporary assessments, testify to imagination and the ability to observe, but which lack artistic depth. Occasionally Sollogub also tried his hand at theater, for example with the comedy Der Beamte (1857), and published memories of Gogol, Pushkin and Lermontow (German, Dorpat 1883) , among others .
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Hasselblatt : "Album Academicum of the Imperial University Dorpat" , Dorpat: C. Mattiesen, 1889, No. 2834, pp.202-203
Web links
- Literature by and about Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Sollogub in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wladimir Alexandrowitsch Sollogub in the German Digital Library
- Article Vladimir Alexandrowitsch Sollogub in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Sollogub, Vladimir Alexandrovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Соллогуб, Владимир Александрович (Russian); Sollogub, Vladimir Alexandrovič |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1813 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Petersburg |
| DATE OF DEATH | June 17, 1882 |
| Place of death | Bad Homburg vor der Höhe |