Ivan Petrovich Kreshev ( 1824 , Petersburg - March 21 ( April 2 ), 1859 , ibid.) - Russian writer , poet, translator, journalist.
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Biography and Creativity
He graduated from St. Petersburg University ( 1845 ), where he studied first at the philosophical, and then at the law faculty. Refused from service, engaged in literature. Debuted in 1840 . Kreshev published original and translated ( Goethe , Schiller , Heine , Ruckert , Uland , Byron , Thomas Moore , A. Chenier , Hugo , Catullus , Horace ) Odes poems in Domestic Notes , Reading Library , Pantheon Magazines "," Lighthouse "and others, in the almanac . His translations of fiction were also placed there. In the “ Library for Reading ” ( 1854 , part 128) there is his article: “Algeria”.
Belinsky ranked Kreshev as imitators of Apollo Maykov . In prose was close to a natural school .
Last years he spent in extreme poverty, worked hard, trying to feed his mother and sick sisters. Towards the end of his life, he became ill with mental illness and died in the Obukhov hospital in St. Petersburg.
Editions
- Translations and imitations. SPb, 1862
Literature
- Nemirovskaya Yu.A. Kreshev Ivan Petrovich // Russian writers 1800-1917. T.3. M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia; Zircon, 1994, p. 151-152