Borodin, Andrey Nikolaevich

Born October 23 ( November 4 ), 1813 in St. Petersburg. His father was the director of the Imperial Faience Factory in Kiev in 1822, and his family lived in Ukraine.

Since 1826, Andrei Borodin studied at the Nezhin High School of Higher Sciences of Prince Bezborodko , where his love for literature was immediately revealed. Pupils, among whom were Gogol, Puppeteer, Grebenka, Redkin, arranged literary evenings where school literary works were read and sorted. In the home student theater, led by Gogol, Borodin played female roles. So, in "Undergrowth" he played the role of Sophia.

In 1831, Borodin graduated from the gymnasium as the first candidate, and on April 15 of the following year he entered the service at the Department of Railways; in 1833 he was appointed secretary to the director of the department, and in 1837, in the same rank, he was transferred to the chief manager of communications.

In 1843, A.N. Borodin was appointed secretary of the office of the chairman of the committee for state horse breeding, and in 1844 he was appointed a permanent member of the special committee for horse breeding, and he was assigned the duties of producer of affairs of the central commission for testing horses in Russia and an employee of the editorial office of the Journal of Horse Breeding and hunting . " In 1849, he was approved as the producer of the affairs of the commission to review reports on the audit of zemstvo stables, and in 1850 he was appointed senior secretary of the office of the horse breeding committee and, at the same time, editor of the Journal of Horse Breeding and Hunting (Borodin served as editor until 1855 ) In May 1858 he received the rank of full state councilor. In 1859, he was appointed director of the office of the state horse breeding council.

He retired due to illness on July 2, 1863.

• Order of St. Anne , 2nd Art. with imperial crown
• Order of St. Vladimir 3rd Art.
• Order of St. Stanislav 1st degree (1861)

The literary activity of A. N. Borodin began by collaborating in the Military Encyclopedic Lexicon , where he posted 92 articles of geographical and historical content, including a comprehensive article, “Internal Waterways in Russia,” written by him during his service at the Ministry of Railways. In 1837-1839 he translated from German “Military Geography of Europe in Tables”, F. Rudtoffer. Then, Borodin collaborated in the Literary Newspaper, where his minor works were printed in verse and prose; his translations were placed in the Pantheon: Shakespeare’s tragedy Cymbelin (1840) and Byron’s poem Manfred (1841); in the "Son of the Fatherland" for 1848 and 1849. several small poems were translated by Borodin from Thomas Moore and Shelley. Since 1844, Borodin's literary activity was concentrated mainly in the “Journal of Horse Breeding and Hunting,” where he posted up to 340 articles, original and translated, on technology and the historical and statistical part of horse breeding in Russia and abroad; Borodin’s largest article on horse breeding is “Historical and Statistical Description of Horse Breeding in Russia”, which he translated into French. In the Journal of Horse Breeding, Borodin also led the Review of Foreign Magazines department, where he introduced readers to everything that turned out to be remarkable in the state of horse breeding in Europe.

He died at the end of 1863 in Saxony, near Dresden .

• Borodin, Andrei Nikolaevich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• List of civilian ranks of the first IV classes: At 1860