Bogdanovich, Peter Fedorovich

From the nobles , was born in Poltava .

In the second half of the 1760s, he studied at the University of Leipzig , then continued his education in the UK and Holland .

In 1771-1777 he served in a secret expedition . From 1777 to 1783 he served in the library of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences as a translator and assistant librarian, participated in the compilation of catalogs of the library and participated in the systematization of the collections of the Kunstkamera .

From 1779 to 1781 he served as editor of the journal " Academic News ", in addition, he oversaw the work of the engraving and drawing departments of the Academy of Sciences (1777-1780). He is the author of annotated catalogs of “all books sold at the Academy of Sciences” (until 1782, these annotated catalogs were published in the newspaper St. Petersburg Vedomosti ).

In 1779 he began his own publishing activities.

In February-June 1786, Bogdanovich (together with F.V. Tumansky ) published the magazine “Mirror of Light”, 6 issues were published. In August-November, he began to publish his journal New St. Petersburg Bulletin, but to no avail, only 2 issues were published, mainly with materials from Bogdanovich himself.

In 1787, he opened his own printing house in St. Petersburg, published over 150 books, including books by the following authors:

• Voltaire ;
• Russo J.-J. ;
• Mercier L.S .;
• Fonvizin D. I. (“The Life of Count N.P. Panin”, “Foreman”, “Undergrowth”, etc.);
• Emin F.A. (reprinted his journal “ Hell's Mail ” and others);
• Erasmus of Rotterdam (the first, however abridged translation of "Praise of Stupidity" (1789)).

In addition, among others, the following books were published by the publisher:

• Grandfather Walks, collection, 1791;
• “The Cure for Thoughtfulness and Insomnia,” collection, 1791;
• "Collection of Russian songs", 1792.

The following compilations and translations belong to him:

• “A wild man laughing at the scholarship and morals of the present world” (St. Petersburg, 1781-1790) (authorship is in doubt, Yu. Lotman believes that the author is Bogdanovich);
• “The New Russian Alphabet for Noble Children” (St. Petersburg, 1784);
• The New and Complete French Alphabet, 1785;
• The New French ABC Book, 1785;
• "The Russian alphabet for young children", 1788,
• "The scribe, or ... instruction, how to compose various kinds of letters", 1788
• “Mohammed with Alcoran” (St. Petersburg, 1786)
• “Tablets of moralizing” (St. Petersburg, 1784)
• “Dodd’s Thoughts” (translated from English, St. Petersburg, 1784)
• “A new way to treat scabies, Peshchikov” (from lat., St. Petersburg., 1786)
• "The historical news of the schismatics ", 1787
• “Description of the earthquakes in Calabria and Sicily” (from French, St. Petersburg, 1787)
• "Rules for maintaining health" (St. Petersburg, 1788)

In 1795, Bogdanovich went bankrupt. His collection of prints and paintings, as well as a significant collection of books that were seriously damaged by a fire in the early 1790s, were sold for debts. In April 1796, Bogdanovich was put on trial on false charges of insulting a private bailiff, and in May he was “a kind of restless and stubborn man who disobeys the authorities” and was expelled from Petersburg to Poltava to his father. In 1801, Bogdanovich reminded himself of himself with a petition and at the end of the year the emperor was allowed to leave Poltava without the right to enter the capital. Died in need and obscurity.

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• Bogdanovich, Peter Ivanovich // Russian Biographical Dictionary : in 25 volumes. - SPb. - M. , 1896-1918.
• Mazaev M.N. Bogdanovich, Petr Fedorovich // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : in 86 volumes (82 volumes and 4 additional). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
• Sukhareva O. V. Who was who in Russia from Peter I to Paul I. - M., 2005