Kiichelbecker Wilhelm Karlovich

(1797 - 1846).
He studied at the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, together with Pushkin and Delwig. He served briefly in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, taught Russian and Latin at the Pedagogical Institute. In 1820, Mr.. read in the Paris public lectures on Russian literature, which was supposed to stop at the request of the Russian embassy. In 1821 - 1822 he served in Ermolov in the Caucasus, where friends with Griboyedov. 1823 - 1824 years spent in Moscow, giving lessons and doing literature (published together with the Prince of VF. Odoyevsky collection "Mnemosyne", (1824). Radical Kuchelbecker loving brought together with some members of the Northern Society, but a member of his Kuchelbecker was not in the case on December 14 mixed up accidentally, "drunk in someone else's feast," as Pushkin. At the Senate Square, he made an attempt on the life of Grand Duke Mikhail Pavlovich, ran from Petersburg, was arrested in Warsaw, tried and sentenced to death, commuted to 15 years of content in the fortress, and after referring to the settlement. After spending nine years in the fortresses of European Russia, Kiichelbecker in 1835, Mr.. was sent to live in Barguzin. He died in Tobolsk. Unbalanced, sensitive, always enthusiastic, Kiichelbecker was a model of romance in life and in literature. Pushkin said about him: "a sensible man with a pen in hand, though madcap". As the publisher of "Mnemosyne", Kiichelbecker was one of the distributors shellingizma in Russia. From art he demanded identity: "Glory to Russia needs a truly Russian poetry; faith forefathers, domestic habits, chronicles, songs and folk tales - the best, cleanest, most reliable sources for our literature". The main features of his art - the idealism and mystical pietism with shade. In large works Kiichelbecker little self-sufficient both in thought and in execution, the best part of his legacy - the lyrics, which are rare civic motives predominate religious and cosmic. Style Kuchelbecker general rhetorical, occasionally up to florid tongue pale and rich Slavism and archaisms, poetic forms uniform. Written by him have not yet been collected, he issued a separate poem, "The Death of Byron" (Moscow, 1824), ponderous joke "Shakespeare Ghosts" (St. Petersburg, 1825), mystery "Izhorskij" (ib., 1835). Several dozen of his pieces are placed in the "Collected Poems Decembrists" (Leipzig, 1862). "Selected Poems VK. Kuchelbecker "published in La Chaux-de-Fonds (1880). In "Russian Antiquities" were printed in his diary and the poem "The Eternal Jew."