Roskovshenko, Ivan Vasilievich

Came from the nobles of the Poltava province. He was born on August 4 ( 16 ), 1809 in the village of Shtepovka, Lebedinsky Uyezd, Kharkov Province .

He studied at the Kharkov private boarding school of I. N. Reipolsky , and since 1826 - at the ethical and political department of the philosophical faculty of the Imperial Kharkov University . After graduating from the university, in 1829 he entered the service of the Department of the Ministry of Justice as an official, and from there he was transferred to the Commissariat Department of the War Ministry in 1832.

In January 1837, he was dismissed from service and was identified as an assistant leader in the Office of the Economic Committee at the Holy Synod . In the same year - Assistant Editor of the Journal of the Ministry of Public Education . Diligence and ability attracted the attention of the Minister of Education S. S. Uvarov and, thanks to him, already in 1839 he was appointed inspector of the Tiflis gymnasium , twice served as the director of the Transcaucasian schools and the Tiflis gymnasium (from 15.11. 1840 to 13.02.1841 and from 06/10/1841 to 09/16/1843). In 1844, Roskovshenko was sent to St. Petersburg and Moscow to deliver children from the Georgian nobility appointed by the Highest Command to the local educational institutions . In 1845, 1847, and 1848, Roskovshenko repeatedly corrected the post of director of the Transcaucasian schools and from December 1845 to July 1847, on the appointment of the Caucasian governor Count M. S. Vorontsov , was a member of the interim Commission for graduating from school houses in the Transcaucasian Territory, and in May 1848 promoted to state councilors .

In 1839, upon departure from St. Petersburg, he was instructed to familiarize himself in detail with the situation of the educational unit in the Caucasus and draw up a project for its transformation. During his service in this region, Roskovshenko was an ardent opponent of the idea of ​​establishing a university in Tiflis, arguing that the establishment of a special Transcaucasian University would isolate Transcaucasia and alienate it from Russia; he saw a means of rapprochement of the outskirts with Russia in sending local youth to Russian educational institutions. This opinion of Roskovshenko, as you know, was accepted; likewise, his project for transforming the educational unit in Transcaucasia was also approved.

The hostile attitude towards Roskovshenko of many people in the local administration, despite the full sympathy for him of the governor of the Caucasus Prince M. S. Vorontsov, made him ask for a transfer from Tiflis and in June 1848 he was transferred to the director of the schools of the Podolsk province . Soon, for the active measures taken by him to improve the condition of private Jewish educational institutions in Podolsk province, and for the delivery of detailed information about them, he was declared gratitude to the Kiev, Podolsk and Volyn military governor-general, and in the same, in 1850, Roskovshenko was fired to improve his health and went to Carlsbad for mineral waters, and in 1851, the head of the Kiev school district thanked him for the constantly diligent and useful service.

In 1852, he again went abroad, and in 1853 he was transferred as the director of the Rivne gymnasium, but two years later, on August 28, 1855, he was dismissed from service due to illness.

After retiring for three and a half years, Roskovshenko again entered the service and in April 1859 was appointed censor to the Moscow Censorship Committee and 5 years later, in April 1864, he was promoted to state statutory councilor for distinction.

From December 21, 1865 to March 16, 1866 he served as chairman of the censorship committee, and on June 6 of that year, he was entrusted by the Minister of the Interior with the chairmanship of the Moscow censorship committee; These duties, together with the censorship, Roskovshenko performed until December 1879.

In 1880 he was promoted to Privy Councilor . In the same 1880, Roskovshenko resigned, settled in the village and died on April 25 ( May 7 ), 1889 in the village of Vysokoye, Rylsky district, Kursk province.

While still studying at Kharkov University, Roscovshenko belonged to the circle of advanced students, grouped around I. I. Sreznevsky , was engaged in literary work, and a year later he appeared in print in St. Petersburg and placed it in the Bulletin of Europe (1830, pr. 3) poem "Oblivion". Life in Petersburg and acquaintance with persons involved in literature prompted Roskovshenko to active literary pursuits. He printed in various magazines, newspapers and almanacs of the 1830s many articles of various, mainly historical contents (partly unsigned), as well as many poems with the signature of his initials ( “I. R.” ) or with the pseudonym “Wilhelm Meister” , and also became an active employee of the famous "Encyclopedic Lexicon" Plushara (vol. VIII — XII, St. Petersburg. 1837-1838).

He was also engaged in translations, in particular, of Shakespeare , from whose writings he translated:

• “ Romeo and Juliet ” (1839). The critic Belinsky praised this translation,
• A Midsummer Night's Dream (1841)
• Three Scenes from Richard III (Act I, Scene IV and Act IV, Scenes II and III, 1838)
• Windsor Mockers (at the end of life, shortly before death, not printed).

In the last period of his life, I.V. Roscovshenko was actively engaged in the study of Western painting, as well as the history of Little Russia.

He collected an extensive and rare collection of Greek, Roman and Oriental coins, most of which were acquired by the Hermitage .

• Longing for the south, (1832, with subscription I.R.);
• review of the "Guide to the initial training of Russian History" by N. G. Ustryalov (1837);
• review of the Dictionary of Memorable People by D. N. Bantysh-Kamensky (1837);
• poems:
  • No Minions (1838),
  • I'm sorry (1838),
  • Separation (1838),
  • Two Sonnets (1839),
  • Sonnet (1839).

In the publication “Collection of Monuments of Folk Ukrainian Literature” by I. I. Sreznevsky, he published 14 articles, and in the “ Russian Archive ” in 1873 he published “A Letter from Count K. G. Razumovsky to His Son-in-law I. V. Gudovich”.

• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd degree (1866),
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1868)
• Order of St. Anne 1st degree (1873).

• Roskovshenko, Ivan Vasilievich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.