Xenophon Alexejewitsch Polewoi

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Xenophon Polewoi

Xenophon Alexejewitsch Polevoi ( Russian Ксенофонт Алексеевич Полевой * July 20 jul. / 1. August  1801 greg. In Irkutsk , † April 9 . Jul / 21st April  1867 . Greg on the estate Tjuchmenewo at Vyazma ) was a Russian journalist , Writer , translator and literary critic .

Life

Xenophon Polewoi was the son of a Kursk businessman. He spent his youth in Simbirsk and Kursk. Like his older siblings Ekaterina and Nikolai , he chose the writing profession.

Early 1820s followed Polevoi his brother in Moscow and helped him from 1825 in the publication of literature and science magazine Moscow Telegraph until 1834 due to a negative criticism of a patriotic play by Nestor Kukolnik on personal command of Nicholas I was closed . He brought in essays, reviews and translations, and from 1829-1834 he was the secret editor of this magazine. After the closure, he worked in the book trade and translated from French , especially the multi-volume memoirs of Duchess Laure-Adelaide Abrantès on Napoleon (1835-1839).

1835-1844 Polewoi was editor of the yearbook Illustrierte Rundschau of the memorable things from science, art, business and home together with a picturesque journey through the world and biographies of important people of his brother. In the 1850s he worked on the Vaterländische Notizen and the Nordbiene , the pro -government magazine for politics and literature (unofficial organ of the secret service). From 1853 to 1854 he published the collected works of the writer Vasily Alexandrowitsch Wonljarljarski in seven volumes and from 1856 to 1864 the St. Petersburg literary magazine Picturesque Russian Library .

Polevoy shared his brother's literary and political views. He fought against Russian classicism as a feudal-aristocratic current and supported romanticism . He wrote a number of critical essays on Ippolit Fjodorowitsch Bogdanowitsch , Alexander Sergejewitsch Pushkin , Anton Antonowitsch Delwig and other Russian poets . In 1836 he wrote a biography of the poet and scientist Michail Wassiljewitsch Lomonossow and in 1838 that of the fable poet Iwan Iwanowitsch Chemnitzer . In 1839 he published the comedy Mind Creates Suffering by Alexander Sergejewitsch Gribojedow together with the essay on the life and work of AS Gribojedows with his memories of the writer. He left revealing memories of his brother: Notes on the Life and Work of NA Polewoy , published in St. Petersburg in 1888.

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  • NL Schilowa: XA Polewoi . Petrozavodsk University , Department of Russian Literature and Journalism (Russian, accessed October 20, 2015)
  • Irkutsk Humanities Center - Polewoi Family Library : The Polewois (Russian, accessed October 21, 2015)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alfaret (Russian, accessed October 20, 2015)
personal data
SURNAME Polewoi, Xenophon Alexejewitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Полево́й, Ксенофо́нт Алексе́евич (Russian spelling); Polevoj, Ksenofont Alekseevich
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Russian journalist, author, historian and literary critic
DATE OF BIRTH August 1, 1801
PLACE OF BIRTH Irkutsk
DATE OF DEATH April 21, 1867
Place of death Good Tyuchmenewo near Vyazma