Pushkin Davidov

1770 - 1830
Born in Moscow. 18-year old boys shine in the salons of Moscow, he served in the Izmailovo Regiment, Lieutenant retired and settled in Moscow. 1803 - 1804 he. Pushkin spent abroad, chiefly in Paris. Before the fire of Moscow in 1812 he led a cheerful, open and hospitable life secured rights. Around the same time is its active cooperation in Aonidah "and" Herald of Europe ". Pushkin was a supporter of Karamzin and was involved in disputes with Shishkov (message "to Zhukovsky", "K Dashkova). By 1811 it is witty, though rough and uncomfortable for printing satire: "Dangerous Neighborhood," in the style of Rainier, which, among other things, he ridiculed the opponents of Karamzin. In 1816, Pushkin became a member of Arzamas. He belonged to the school classics and no sympathy with the Romantic movement. In his poem "Captain Khrabrov Pushkin ridiculed representatives of Romanticism. He himself was a supporter of "light poetry and imitator Dmitriev wrote" songs ", letters, epigrams, and t. n., imitated Horace, Tibulu, Catullus, Boys and others, has translated several fables by La Fontaine, Florian and others. To his nephew to the famous Pushkin treated with great admiration, which is expressed in his letters to him. Poems published in 1822 and 1835 respectively. The best edition - edited and with an introduction by VI. Saitov (St. Petersburg, 1893); here includes prose articles, letters and all the poems, except "dangerous neighbor, the latter published in Leipzig (1855). A. L-NCB.