Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Khovansky (1767-1796) - Russian poet and translator .
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Biography
Grigory Khovansky was born in Moscow in 1767; came from a Russian princely family ; grandson of V.P. Khovansky . He spent his childhood in his hometown, in the house of Father Alexander Vasilievich (1722-1794); was a pupil of Ya. B. Knyazhnin [3] and after his death he reverence for his memory [4] [5] .
He served in the Ryazan Infantry Regiment and in 1793 where he rose to the rank of major. The largest Russian writer of the era of sentimentalism Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin , who corresponded with him in verses written on his death ( Aonids , 1797, book II), portrayed Khovansky as a good jolly person, alien to envy, ready to give the last to the poor [6] [ 3] .
In the "New Monthly Works" of 1788, three poems of Khovansky were published at once. Then it was published in the journals of I. A. Krylov “The Spectator ” (1792) and “ St. Petersburg Mercury ” (1793) [3] .
In “A Useful and Pleasant Transmission of Time ” (1795–1796), he placed poems and translations from French , in particular translations of Florian's works. Several of the poet’s plays were published in 1 book “Aonid” in 1796 [3] .
Most of the literary material placed by G. A. Khovansky in the journals was included in the collection of his poems, published by the first edition in St. Petersburg in 1793, under the heading: “ My idle time, or a collection of some minor works in poetry ”, and the second in 1795 , under the title “ Victim of the Muses, or a collection of various works, imitations and translations in verse ” [3] .
Particularly distinguished among his poems are songs in the Russian style, of which many were included in the number of people, and hardly anyone knows about their belonging to Prince Khovansky; among them: “ Ah, the meadows, the meadows are green, where I used to walk so often ”, “ For a long time I wander in the light alone, to shed tears ” and “ I walked the evening in the meadows, I wanted to disperse sadness ”, which Prince P. admired . Vyazemsky , and in which, in his opinion, a lot of freshness, simple-heartedness and artlessness [7] . Prince Khovansky has six such songs in the last collection of his poems; some of them were included in the “Pocket Songbook” by I. I. Dmitriev (1796) [8] [3] .
Among the other poems of Prince Khovansky are several translators from Voltaire , an imitation of Anacreon , a translation of the poem of Frederick II , soldier's and love songs, romances, idylls and elegies, epitaphs, inscriptions, messages, madrigals, stanzas, as well as several fables and satirical poems (“ Anecdote, Adventure in St. Petersburg ”,“ Pupil of Paris ”) and inevitable odes. Of the latter, one that was included in the collection of poems: " Poems on the peace concluded between Russia and Sweden on August 3, 1790 ", was printed separately (St. Petersburg, 1790) [3] .
Prince Grigory Alexandrovich Khovansky died on December 1 (12), 1796 in the city of Moscow.
Notes
- ↑ Encyclopedic Dictionary / Ed. I.E. Andreevsky , K.K. Arseniev , F.F. Petrushevsky - St. Petersburg. : Brockhaus - Efron , 1907.
- ↑ Russian Biographical Dictionary / Ed. A.A. Polovtsov , N.P. Chulkov , N.D. Chechulin , etc. - St. Petersburg. , M. - T. 21. - S. 374-375.
- ↑ 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Khovansky, Grigory Aleksandrovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- ↑ Stamp business of the princes of Khovansky (1793), in the archives of the Department of Heroldia .
- ↑ Modzalevsky B.L. Khovansky, Grigory Alexandrovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
- ↑ “Letters from Karamzin to Dmitriev,” with notes by Y. K. Grot and P. P. Pekarsky (St. Petersburg, 1866, p. 56 and 634).
- ↑ Printed for the first time in The Aonids of 1796; in 1823, translated into English and printed in the book “Specimens of the Russian poets”, London , part II
- ↑ Complete works of Prince P.A. Vyazemsky (St. Petersburg, 1883, vol. VIII, pp. 326–327)
Literature
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- “Bibliographic Notes” (1858, pp. 589-592).
- Dolgorukov P.V. “Russian genealogy book”, part I, St. Petersburg, 1855, p. 282.
- Metropolitan Eugene: “Dictionary of Secular Writers”, Moscow , 1845, part II, p. 240.
- Neustroev A. N. “Historical Search for Russian Contemporary Publications and Collections” (St. Petersburg, 1874).
- Description of the capital city of St. Petersburg (St. Petersburg, 1794, p. 563).
- Poltoratsky S. D. "Materials for the Dictionary of Russian Writers" (Notebook I, M., 1858, p. 8-9).