Gerbel Nikolay

(1827 - 1883).
After Nezhin Lyceum served in Izyumske Hussars, then the Life Guards Lancers. Literary interests have arisen in Gerbel Nizhin, which was still alive the memory of Gogol, the puppeteers and Grebenki. Settled in St. Petersburg, Gerbel worked in the "Contemporary", "Library for Reading" and "Notes of the Fatherland". Originals Gerbel, published in 1858 a collection of "Echoes" and included in the "Complete Collected Poems Gerbel" (1882) did not differ by large advantages. Honorable and well-deserved fame earned Gerbel as a poet-translator and editor. Having released in 1854 verse translation of "Lay", which went through 2 other editions (1855, 1876), Gerbel engaged in publishing collections of works of European classical. With the assistance Benediktova, . Kurochkin, . Maikova, . Mey, . Mina, . Polonsky, . Tyutchev, . Feta and other, . they were published in the 1860's and 70's of the complete collected works of Lord Byron, . Goethe, . Hoffmann, . Shakespeare and Schiller, . as well as collections of "English poets", . "German poets", . "Slavic poets" in the biographies and samples,
. Much of the work in the preparation of biographical essays fell on Gerbel; great assistance in the translation work has provided him by his wife, Olga. Gerbel was also a valuable anthology: "Russian poets in the biographies and samples", published in translation the works of Shevchenko (1873 and later), Collected Works E.P. Comb N.YA. Prokopovich and collection: "High School Prince Bezborodko". His Slav feeling he showed in the publication in favor of the suffering of the Slavs of the Balkan Peninsula: "fraternal assistance". Gerbel also published the collected works of NV. Berg, AV. Berg, AV. Druzhinina, IS. Kresevo and D.M. Michael. He wrote essays, biographical and bibliographical nature of the classmate on Nezhin - Gogol, combs and the puppeteers - and a monograph of the historical character, for example, "Nizhin" (1852), "Izum suburban Cossack regiment (St. Petersburg, 1852) and others. - See. K. Trostin, in his book "High School Prince Bezborodko" (1859, 21 - 26), P. Field, in the gymnasium of higher science and Lyceum Prince Bezborodko (St. Petersburg, 1881). P. Z.