Vetter Ivan Ivanovich (1796 -?) - Russian poet and translator.
Information about it is scarce. He served in St. Petersburg on a counting expedition of the Admiralty and on the expedition of state revenues from 1811 to 1816. He lived and worked as a translator at the Siberian Post Office in Tobolsk since 1822. He was friends with the composer A. Alyabyev , who is in exile in Tobolsk . Alyabyev wrote romances on Vetter's texts - Irtysh (1829), Farewell to the Nightingale in the North, and Siberian Song. Vetter's death date has not been established.
Bibliography
Songs and romances of Russian poets. Introductory article, preparation of the text and notes by V. E. Gusev. Library of the poet. Big series. Second edition. M.-L., " Soviet writer ", 1965