Zaitsevsky, Efim Petrovich

Biographical information is scarce. Zaitsevsky was born in 1799, according to other sources in 1800 or 1801, died in Naples in 1860 or 1861.

He served in the navy, participated in the Turkish campaign of 1828-1829. ; On January 16, 1829, with the rank of captain-lieutenant, he was awarded the Order of St. George 4th degree (No. 4258 according to the list of Grigorovich - Stepanov ); promoted to captain of the 2nd rank (1846).

Subsequently, he served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1851 to 1853 he served as consul general in Sicily, and on July 28, 1853 he was appointed to be a member of the mission in Naples.

In his free time, he wrote poems mainly elegiac poems, original and translated, which he printed in periodicals from the mid- 1820s : in “News of Literature” ( 1825 - 1826 ), “ Nevsky Almanac ” ( 1825 , 1826 - 1827 ), “ Northern flowers ”( 1828 - 1829 ). He also collaborated in Telescope , Son of the Fatherland , Mayak , Literaturnaya Gazeta and many almanacs .

A short list of poems that have reached us Zaitsevsky :

• "Spring" ("Polar Star" 1825),
• Abazia (ib.),
• "Odessa" (From a letter to G-mu) ("Nevsky Almanac" 1826),
• Anthological Excerpt (ib.),
• “To C ***” (upon news of his departure to Georgia) (ib.), “Black Sea” (ib.),
• Return from the Sea (ib.),
• Spring (ib.),
• “An Evening in Tauris” (ib.),
• Uchan-su (Northern Flowers 1828),
• "B. F. Pth "(ib., 1829),
• “To the unbroken rose” (To the album ***) (“Rainbow” 1830. Reprinted in “Venus” 1831, part II),
• “Denis Vasilyevich Davydov” (“Literature. Newspaper” 1830, No. 11),
• “The Book of Nature” (“Literature. Newspaper” 1830, No. 17),
• "Switzerland". Excerpt from the letter to *** (The Telescope 1832, part VIIII, No. 7),
• “They tell me: fearing the shackles of dangerous love” (“Spring Flowers” ​​1835),
• “Song” (from the collection of songs of the Russian sailor), is dedicated to the Baltic and Black Sea fleets (“Lighthouse” 1840, part III),
• “Midday in Venice” (Housewarming 1845, part I)
• “To the album of E. I. K-th” (“New Lit.”, Prince XI, April),
• Love Thinking (ib.),
• “Return from the Sea” (ib., Prince XI, May),
• The Elegy (1824) (ib.) And
• Elegy (ib.),
• "The ruins of Chersonesos"
• "In memory of Pushkin" , <1837?> And others.

• Vatsuro V.E. Zaitsevsky Efim Petrovich // Russian writers, 1800-1917. - M., 1992. - T. 2. - S. 317. - ISBN 5-85270-064-9 .
• Zaitsevsky, Efim Petrovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.