Vsevolod Dimitrievich Kostomarov (1837-1865) - Russian writer , poet - translator , nephew of historian N. I. Kostomarov .
| Vsevolod Dmitrievich Kostomarov | |
|---|---|
| Date of Birth | April 20 ( May 2 ) 1837 |
| Place of Birth | Yaroslavl province |
| Date of death | December 7 (19), 1865 (28 years old) |
| A place of death | St. Petersburg |
| Citizenship |  Russian empire |
| Occupation | poet - translator |
| Language of Works | |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Literary activities
- 3 Reporting
- 4 Sources
Biography
Born on April 20 (May 2), 1837 in the Yaroslavl province .
After graduating from the Mikhailovsky Artillery School (1856) he served as a cadet , then as a cornet in the cavalry - in the Little Russian cuirassier (until 1858) and Smolensk Ulan Regiments. He served in Poland . In 1860, he was dismissed from service.
He died on December 7 (19), 1865 from the sarcoma in the department for the poor at the Mariinsky Hospital in St. Petersburg . He was buried at Volkovsky cemetery .
Literary activity
Together with F.N. Berg he published collections of foreign poetry, in which Kostomarov owned translations from Beranger , Heine , Hugo , Chamisso , Italian poets ("A collection of poems of foreign poets", Moscow, 1860; "Poets of all times and peoples", Moscow, 1861). I took part in the second collection of several poets, among them A.N. Pleshcheyev , after which several joint translations of Kostomarov and him followed.
Compiled "History of the literature of the ancient and new world" (ed. A.P. Milyukov , St. Petersburg, 1862). In the journal Vremya (1861, X), he published his article Legends of the Serbs , with a translation of a number of folk tales. In Russian Word , Vremya, Svetoch and other Kostomarov he printed a number of translations from Burns , Longfellow , Byron, and others; some of them were included in Gerbel's collection: “English Poets” (St. Petersburg, 1875). He also began the translation of the complete works of Shakespeare , but managed to publish only: “ King John ” (St. Petersburg, 1864) and “ King Richard II ” (St. Petersburg, 1865).
Reporting
In 1861 he met N.G. Chernyshevsky , N.V. Shelgunov , and set up an underground printing house at home. Arrested in August 1861 for disseminating his own proclamations, he began to give frank testimonies and did not disdain to fabricate material evidence of the guilt of Chernyshevsky, Mikhailov and other revolutionary democrats. For his own guilt, he was demoted into a soldier. The intercepted letter from the embittered Kostomarov, in which he accused completely innocent people of his misfortune, led to trouble for many Petersburg writers.
Sources
- Kostomarov, Vsevolod Dmitrievich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1895. - T. XVI (31): Concord - Koyalovich. - S. 401.