1839 in literature

• January 1 in St. Petersburg published the first issue of the journal " Domestic Notes ".
• N.V. Gogol writes " Nights at the Villa " (not finished).
• Alexei Koltsov wrote poems: “Do not spill magical sounds”, “Longing for free”, “Little farm”, “Song (“ My friend told me ... ”)”, “What do you hear, man? ...” ^[1]
• M. Lermontov wrote poems: "When I begin to die ...". “Three palm trees”, “Do not believe yourself” Evgeny Baratynsky - “There were storms, bad weather ...”, Nikolai Ogaryov - “Autumn feeling”. ^[2]
• Nikolai Nekrasov wrote a poem entitled "To the Heart." ^[3]
• The second part of Honore de Balzac's novel Lost Illusions, Provincial Celebrity in Paris, was published. ^[four]
• In No. 7 of the “Domestic Notes” for 1839, under the pseudonym “-ova”, a free translation of G. Heine’s poem “Ich weiss nicht, was soll es bedeuten” was published. This translation, made by Karolina Pavlova, was the first translation of the poem “Lorelei” by G. Heine in Russia. ^[five]
• In 1839, the collection of Theodore Hercard de la Willemark “Barzaz Breiz” (“Breton Songs”), which is a literary processing of songs and ballads, was released. ^[6]
• In 1839, Dostoevsky formulated his creative motto: “Man is a secret. It must be solved, and if you solve it all your life, do not say that you lost time; I deal with this mystery, because I want to be a man. " ^[7]
• In the journal Sovremennik, 1839, Prince I., for the first time a social satire in the style of anti-utopia in the USA of the mid-19th century by V.F. Odoevsky, “City without a name”, was published. ^[8] .
• Published "Supplements to the" Cavalry Maiden "" Nadezhda Durova. ^[9]
• In 1839, the printing house of the Headquarters of the Separate Internal Guard Corps under the pseudonym Aleksandrov first published the novel Gudishki, which was written by the first female officer in Russia, Nadezhda Durova. ^[10] .
• 10 years after the death of the author and 6 years after the first edition in Moscow (1833) in St. Petersburg, the second edition of the comedy by A. Griboedov “Woe from Wit” was published, on one hundred pages of which the article “On the Life and Works of A S. Griboedov. " ^[eleven]
  

Edgar Alan Poe:

• " William Wilson , short story. ^[12] ;
• "The man who was chopped into pieces, " the story; ^[13]
• “ Damn the bell ”, the story. ^[14]

Mikhail Yurjevich Lermontov:

The poem "Demon" (eighth edition) ^[15]

poems ^[16] :

• "BUT. A. Olenina ";
• "Gifts of the Terek";
• "Prayer (In the difficult moment of life";
• “Do not believe yourself”;
• “In memory of A. I. Odoyevsky”;
• “Song of Kazbich”;
• "Three palm trees";
• "E. K. Musina-Pushkina ”;
• "*** (Like a free wolf)";
• “*** (Oh, how cool and fun we are)”;
• "*** (Baby sweet birth)."

The story of Vladimir Sollogub . "The story of two galoshes." ^[17]

Book of Evdokia Rostopchina . Essays on the Great Light ^[18]

The story of Edgar Allan Poe. "The Fall of the House of Asher." ^[nineteen]

The story of Mikhail Zagoskin "Longing for the Motherland." ^[20]

"Morning Star. Almanac for 1839 ”- publisher V. A. Vladislavlev ^[21]

Roman Ann Stevens "Maleska, or Indian White Hunter Wife" ^[22] .

• January 27 - Pavel Platonovich Chubinsky (Pavlo Platonovich Chubinsky) - Ukrainian poet, folklorist, statesman, (died January 29, 1884). ^[23]
• February 8 - Ivan Zakharyin, Russian writer, playwright, essayist, poet, (died October 20, 1906). ^[24]
• February 12 - Viktor Ivanovich Vasilenko , Russian and Ukrainian ethnographer and statistician; one of the authors of "ESBE", (died 4.03 / 6.04.1914). ^[25]
• February 15. - Raiko Zhinzifov, Bulgarian writer, journalist and translator, (died February 15, 1877) ^[26]
• March 13 - Alexander Alexandrovich Navrotsky , Russian poet and playwright, (died May 28, 1914.). ^[27]
• May 6 - Maria Klemer, American writer.
• May 7 - Franz Zakreis, Czech writer, (died June 9, 1907). ^[28]
• May 16 - Francois Arman Sully-Prudom , French poet, the first Nobel laureate in literature in 1901, (died in 1907 ).
• June 29 - Count Vladislav Kosebrodsky, Polish playwright and writer.
• July 18 - Ivan Kuratov - founder of Komi literature, Komi poet, translator ,. (died November 29, 1875 ^[29]
• July 21 - Joaquim Maria Mashado de Assis, Brazilian writer, novelist, (died September 29, 1908) ^[30]
• September 2 - Henry George, American writer, politician, (died October 29, 1897) ^[31]
• September 24 - Fyodor Berg, Russian poet, prose writer, publicist, (died April 4/17, 1909) ^[32]
• October 8/20 - Nikolay Blinov, priest, writer, enlightener, Honorary Citizen of Sarapul, (died December 31, 1917/13 January 1918). ^[33]
• November 10 - Vasily Avenarius, writer for children and youth, (died November 9, 1923)
• November 29 - Ludwig Anzengruber (Ludwig Anzengruber), Austrian playwright, writer, poet, (died in 1889 ). ^[34]

• April 22 - Denis Davydov, poet, writer, military leader, hero of the Patriotic War of 1812. ^[35]
• June 16 (28) - Alexander Fedorovich Voeikov , Russian poet, translator, literary critic, publisher, journalist, member of the Russian Academy of Sciences (born 1778 or 1779 ). ^[36]
• August 15 - Alexander Odoevsky, poet, Decembrist. ^[37]