IVANOV-CLASSIC Alexei Fyodorovich

(1841 - 1894), son of a peasant. As soon learned to read, when his father, who opened a shop in St. Petersburg, took him to her for assistance in trade. Ivanov's desire to continue their education met to odium and ridicule from his father's neighbors, Ivanov called "classic". Nickname this was a literary pseudonym Ivanov. The first printed work of Ivanov was the poem: "On the death Nikitina (in the Petersburg Gazette, 1861). Soon Ivanov became a permanent member of "Iskra", marked a lot of poems in "Alarm", "St. Petersburg Newssheet" and others. periodicals. Most of his bravery poems is socially satirical nature, but some of the lyric poem as a success. Collections of poems Ivanova: "Classic Songs" (1873), "At Dawn" (1882), "Poems" (1891). Reminiscences of a trip abroad gathered in the book "Funny fellow traveler" (1889).