Anthony Pogorelsky biography

The best quotes are Russian writer, prose writer, statesman. One of the first domestic writers turned to the fiction genre. The real name is Alexey Alekseevich Perovsky. The exact date of birth is not set. Came from a very famous family. The illegitimate son of Count Alexei Kirillovich Razumovsky, the brother of the statesmen of the count of Perovsky, the uncle A.

Tolstoy and the brothers of the pearls. He spent his childhood in the Razumovsky estate in Ukraine where he received primary education. In the year he entered Moscow University, which he graduated two years later with the degree of Doctor of Philosophical and Verbal Sciences. Since childhood, he had the ability to compose and was familiar with many famous writers of that time Karamzin, Zhukovsky, Turgenev, but he saw his mission in the public service.

C served in various positions in the province and St. Petersburg. When the Patriotic War of the Year Pogorelsky began, contrary to the will of his father, he left the post of secretary of the Minister of Finance and went into the current army. He served in the third Ukrainian Cossack regiment, took part in partisan actions and major battles near Leipzig and at Kulma. He served in the Adjutant of Prince occupied by the Allies of Saxony.

Here Pogorelsky met the work of Hoffmann, who had a significant influence on him. In the year, Pogorelsky left the army and returned to Petersburg where he continued the civil service. At this time, the circle of his literary acquaintances expands significantly, Pogorelsky is part of the Arzamassev Wednesday, gets acquainted with Pushkin. In particular, Pogorelsky actively defended the Pushkin poem “Ruslan and Lyudmila” from attacks from attacks.

In addition, Pogorelsky becomes the teacher of his nephew A. Tolstoy, whose mother Pogorelsky’s sister left her husband shortly after the birth of her son. In the year, the writer’s father died and inherited Pogorelsky’s estate in Ukraine, in which he lived for a long time and from whose name he took a pseudonym.

Under this pseudonym in the year, the first significant artistic work of Pogorelsky was published - the story "Lafapov Makovnitsa", highly appreciated by Pushkin, and then the collection "Double, or my evenings in Little Russia" to the city. All the works of Pogorelsky turned out to be innovative for their time and caused extensive discussions. In the year, Pogorelsky finally resigned.

The writer lived in his estate Pogorelians, although he traveled a lot in Europe and Russia, devoting a lot of time to raising his nephew. Pogorelsky died from tuberculosis on the way to Nice to the place of treatment. Interesting facts from life were rumors that the nephew of Pogorelsky A. Tolstoy was actually the fruit of the cameling union of the writer with his sister.