Kalenov Petr

(27.H.1839, der. Belsky Vetlitsy district of Smolensk province - 8 (21). VI.1900, Moscow)
Of the nobility. Educated in Smolensk boarding school, graduated in 1855, Mr.. Graduated (1863) History and Philology. He taught ancient languages and logic in the 1-st Moscow school. First appearance in print - translated poems J. Byron's "Darkness" (1876). From 80-ies. active member of the Moscow Psychological Society, and his speeches and articles "Love in Plato" (1886), . Teaching Schiller about the beauty and aesthetic pleasure "(1891), . "Beauty and Art" (1898), etc., . with the philosophy, . psychology and aesthetics, . were limited largely to the popularization of classical philosophical theories,
. Sustained interest in philosophy and realized in his work (poem, "Buddha", 1885). Translated "Cain" J. Byron (1883). Were posthumously published his translations of dramas F. Schiller's "Two Piccolomini and Death of Wallenstein" (1902). Transfers to. not identify the poetic originality of the text.

Lit.: Russian Writers 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. - V.2. - M., 1992. - P. 444-445.