Ivanchin-Pisarev, Nikolai Dmitrievich

Nikolai Ivanchin-Pisarev was born in Moscow in 1790; came from an old noble family. He spent his childhood in a wealthy, patriarchal and pious family; received a very good home education, under the guidance of foreign teachers ^[1] .

For some time he served in the civil service as a censor at the Moscow Post Office. He knew French, German and Italian well and early felt a penchant for reading literature and history. In his youth, his favorite writers were Kleist, Galler and Herder, and of the Russians, Karamzin, Dmitriev and Zhukovsky. Under the influence of the elegy of the latter, “Rural Cemetery” began to write poetry and his first experiments appeared in the journal Aglaya in 1809 ^[1] .

Subsequently, Dmitriev, Merzlyakov, Kachenovsky and V. Izmailov took the young author under his protection, and his friend, A. O. Taushev, who was engaged in literature himself, was his constant adviser and censor of his poetic experiments ^[1] .

Compiled a rich art gallery. In the literary direction adjoined the Moskvityanin . His poems were published in the Bulletin of Europe ; separately published: “Works and translations in verses” (M., 1819 ); “The Newest Poems” (M., 1828 ); “The rich, the glad” (M., 1832 ).

Prose articles on art and history in the Moskvityanin , Northern Bee , Athenaeum and other publications. Separately came out: "The domestic gallery, with the addition of some other works" (M., 1832 ); “A Look at Ancient Russian Poetry” (M., 1837 ), “The Spirit of Karamzin or Selected Thoughts and Feelings of this Writer” (M., 1827 ).

Separately, several historical descriptions of Moscow environs were also issued, in particular: " A walk along the ancient Kolomensky district ." M. , 1844.

Nikolai Dmitrievich Ivanchin-Pisarev died in February 1849 in his hometown ^[1] .

• Ivanchin-Pisarev, Nikolai Dmitrievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.