Alex Illichevsk Dem'yanovich

(1798 - 1837)
The poet Pushkin's era, comrade Pushkin on education in the Tsar's Lyceum. He began writing poetry very early, participated in the school magazines ( "Vestnik", "For fun and profit," "Young swimmers") and the first time considered a rival to Pushkin. Especially hard labored Illichevsk in a satirical way, wrote fables, epigrams, Pushkin ( "Piruyuschie students") turned to him: "pour hundreds of epigrams on the enemy and friend". Drawing Illichevsk not bad cartoons. Recognizing the superiority of Pushkin, Illichevsk carefully rewrote his poems. Many of the youthful poems Illichevsk are compiled collection of "Lyceum Anthology". In 1827, Mr.. Illichevsk published "Experiments in anthological kind of summary or collection of fables and fairy tales, moral thoughts, signatures, madrigals, epigrams, epitaphs, and other small poems". Destination Illichevsk was primarily didactic, but the morality of his pathetic, and better and freer he felt in the epigrams. His good-natured, good-natured and funny satire lacks serious public backing and the more protests, it is directed against the ordinary vices and weaknesses of human. Verse Illichevsk polish, dry and fairly smooth, elegant places. In prose Illichevsk wrote a little (among other things, "History of a pin" in the "Northern Star" in 1829). His works have not yet collected, laid to rest in magazines and anthologies 20 - 30-ies. - See. N. Lerner, aq. Illichevsk ", in I t. "Works" Pushkin, ed. S. Vengerov, H. Gastfreynd "Comrades of Pushkin" (t. II, St. Petersburg.).