A.F. Smirdin founded the monthly library " Library for Reading, " which was published until 1865 .
Books
“ Vladimir of the Third Degree ” - a play by Nikolai Gogol .
“Souls of Purgatory” (Les âmes du Purgatoire) - a short story by Prosper Merimet.
“ Notes of a Madman ” is the story of Nikolai Gogol.
“ The History of Pugachev ” is the story of Alexander Pushkin .
The Little Humpbacked Horse is a fairy tale by Peter Ershov .
Legends of Angria is a Charlotte Bronte novel.
" Nevsky Prospect " - the story of Nikolai Gogol.
“ Pan Tadeusz ” is an epic poem by Adam Mickiewicz .
“ Queen of Spades ” is the story of Alexander Pushkin.
“ The story of how Ivan Ivanovich quarreled with Ivan Nikiforovich ” is the story of Nikolai Gogol.
“ Portrait ” is the story of Nikolai Gogol.
" The Tale of the Golden Cockerel " - a fairy tale by Alexander Pushkin.
Literary Studies
“Literary dreams. Elegy in Prose ”- an article by V. G. Belinsky .
Born
March 21 - Vasily Yakovlevich Mikhailovsky , archpriest of theRussian OrthodoxChurch , theologian , poet , teacher , rectorof the Ascension Church , chairman of the St. Petersburg Society of Sobriety [1] .
June 15 - Jan ten Brink , Dutch writer (died in 1901 ).
July 17 - Francois Quayard (1834-1904), French missionary, poet, writer, translator. The author of the words of the national anthem of Lesotho (d. In 1904 ).
September 16 - Julius Wolf , German poet and prose writer (died in 1910 ).
October 5 - Herminia Foix Fusinato , Italianpoet , wife of (d. 1876 ) [2] .
Passed away
January 28 - Karl August Engelhardt , German writer (born 1768 ).
July 25 - Samuel Taylor Coleridge , an English romantic poet, critic and philosopher, an outstanding representative of the "lake school" (born in 1772 ).
September 16 - Antoine Vincent Arnault , French playwright, fabulously poet and statesman (born 1766 ).
Notes
↑Mikhailovsky, Vasily Yakovlevich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional).- SPb., 1890-1907.
↑Foix Fusinato, Herminia // Jewish Encyclopedia of Brockhaus and Efron .- SPb.1908-1913.