Karabanov, Pyotr Matveevich

Pyotr Matveevich Karabanov ( July 19, 1765 , Smolensk - April 19, 1829 ) (or, according to updated data, was born earlier, in 1753/1754) - a Russian poet-archaist from the Karabanovs .

Pyotr Matveevich Karabanov
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He was the premarital (and unlawful) son of a nobleman Matvey Mikhailovich Karabanov, who later had a legitimate son, Pyotr Matveyevich Karabanov (December 31, 1769 - October 16, 1823), who became the grandfather of the writer Konstantin Nikolayevich Leontyev .

Peter Matveyevich Karabanov Sr. was brought up (at the penitential and tearful request of his father) in the house of Archbishop Plato (Levshin) (or rather, Smolensky Bishop Parfeny). After studying at the Tver and Trinity seminaries, he entered Moscow University in 1782. Prior to his retirement in 1791, he served in the Narva Carabiner Regiment as an auditor of the office of Prince G. A. Potemkin . There is evidence that during the Patriotic War of 1812, some Major Karabanov (it was not proved that it was he) gathered at his own expense a company of militias, personally commanded a detachment of mobile police . After the war, he continued to serve in the court department, since 1827 - a state adviser .

Belonged to the literary camp of the " archaists ", was a member of the Russian Academy (since 1803) and Conversations of lovers of the Russian word (since 1811). He wrote mainly odes , which enjoyed some popularity at the turn of the 18th-19th centuries. Their collection was entitled “Poems of Peter Karabanov, moral, lyrical, love, comic and mixed, original and translated” ( Moscow , 1801; 2nd ed., Ext., With the addition of “Poems about Gardens” by Delil , St. Petersburg , 1812). Karabanov translated poems to Voltaire 's Alzira ( St. Petersburg , 1786, 1798, and M. , 1811).

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A very wealthy man, P. M. Karabanov (the youngest) owned 800 male souls in the Vyazemsky district . His Vyazma estates included the villages of Sokolovo and Spasskoye-Telepnevo. According to the recollections of his grandson K.N. Leontiev , in Pyotr Karabanovo "something subtle Versailles got along with the most terrible Asian in its unbridled ferocity . " He left 4 children married to Alexandra Epafroditovna Stankevich (from a family of Kostroma landowners). Among them, the most notable is Vladimir Petrovich Karabanov (d. 1842), major general, Smolensk provincial leader of the nobility.