Vladimir Sergeevich Likhachev

(1849 - 1910). He was educated in St. Petersburg and Kharkov University, served in the Ministry of Finance. Far from the bright poetic individuality, Likhachev was a master of translation and a virtuoso of verse. The best thing he collected in the book "For 20 years" (St. Petersburg, 1889). Fascinated by the liberation movement, in recent years devoted Likhachev wicked satire on the bureaucracy and the reaction. Just about death became a Protestant. Remarkable ekspromist, he at one time published a satirical magazine, "mot". The main literary heritage Likhachev - translation. In "Tartuffe" and "School for Wives, Moliere, he received an honorary tip and the Pushkin Prize of the Academy of Sciences. He also translated "Don Juan", . Miserly ", . "Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme, . "Sganarelle", . "Flying Doctor" and other plays of Moliere, . "Mary Stuart" by Schiller, . Le Cid Corneille, . "Shluk and Yau" Hauptmann, . "Jerusalem Delivered" of Tasso, and many smaller works of Schiller, . Byron and others,
. Verse Likhachev perfect, everyday conversation, especially lower-class, captured perfectly; purity of Russian speech was his cult. The original play him: "In the arms of relatives," "Life Ilimova and Mamusya" went from success on the stage Alexandrina. A. I.