ZAHPRIN Pyotr

(about 1750 - 1800).
At the time, got loud famous speech, what he said, but composed Derzhavin, at the opening of the first public school in Tambov in 1786, Mr.. Consisting of military service, worked at odd Prosody. Derzhavin, . the then civil governor of Tambov, . not particularly appreciated his poetic gift and read described it in a poem dedicated to his comic "The desire of Winter": "His mercy degraded retired sergeant, . Nobility thoughts copyist, . archivist without archive, . steward, without the name and the poet without taste ",
. His "Arsafaks. Chaldean fictional story "(Moscow, 1793 - 1796) enjoyed great fame, about her very praised in literary circles, praised her and Derzhavin. Other works Zakharyin: "New Synopsis or description of the origin of the Slavic-Rossiyskogo people" (Moscow, 1798), "Path to Virtue" (Moscow, 1796) and others. anything of value does not represent. - Wed. A. Nicholas "Russian Antiquities", 1896,? 4; Salias the Russian Messenger, 1876,? 10.