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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Naberezhnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 12 hidden Annensky I.F. (1855-1909), poet and teacher | |
ANNENSKY Innokenty Fedorovich (1856-1909, St. Petersburg), poet, playwright, translator, critic, and teacher promoted to Actual Civil Counsellor in 1896. He graduated from the department of history and philosophy of Petersburg University with a ... | | ANNENSKY Innokenty Fedorovich (1856-1909, St. Petersburg), poet, playwright, translator, critic, and teacher promoted to Actual Civil Counsellor in 1896. He graduated from the department of history and philosophy of Petersburg University with a major in literature in 1879. He served in the Ministry of Public Education until his dying day. He was the director of the Eighth Petersburg Gymnasium at 8 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island in 1893-96 and director of Nicholas Gymnasium at 12 Naberezhnaya Street, Tsarskoe Selo, where he also lived from 1896 to 1905. Among his students were N. S. Gumilev, D. I. Kokovtsev, and N. N. Punin. He started to appear in print with his reviews, critical essays, and educational articles from the early 1880s. He published his first collected verses, Quiet Songs, under the name of Nic. T-o in 1904 and the second collected verses, Cypress Casket, published after his death in 1910. He was the first to translate Euripides’ tragedies into Russian completely in verse. Ancient Greek motifs affected Annensky’s own dramas including Famira-kifared, Laodamia, etc. He wrote collected critical essays Book of Reflections in 1906 and a Second Book of Reflections in 1909. He was one of the founders of Apollon journal in 1909 and a member of the Society of Literature Enthusiasts founded by the magazine editors. Annensky played a key role in Russian literature of the 1910s, his works having a major impact on Gumilev, A. A. Akhmatova, O. E. Mandelstam, B. L. Pasternak, G. V. Adamovich, et al. He last lived at 11 Zakharzhevskaya Street in Tsarskoe Selo, the house is not preserved. He died of a heart failure on the stairs of the Tsarskoe Selo Station (today, Vitebsky Railway Station). Buried at Kazanskoe Cemetery, Tsarskoe Selo. References: Лавров А. В., Тименчик Р. Д. Иннокентий Анненский в неизданных воспоминаниях // Памятники культуры: Новые открытия: Ежегодник, 1981. Л., 1983. С. 61-146; Федоров А. В. Иннокентий Анненский: Личность и творчество. Л., 1984; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 221-245. Т. М. Dvinyatina.
| | | | hidden The Nicholas Man Gymnasium. The memorial plaque to I.F. Annensky. | |
A part of the area of the closed Wall-paper Factory with a stone barrack for workers, belonged to the Banknote Factory since 1780, was given for building a public almshouse according to the Emperor’s order in 1859 ... | | A part of the area of the closed Wall-paper Factory with a stone barrack for workers, belonged to the Banknote Factory since 1780, was given for building a public almshouse according to the Emperor’s order in 1859. The project of converting the barrack into the almshouse with a domestic church was developed by I.A. Monighetti. The construction was directed by A.F. Vidov in 1863-1865, but then building was stopped in connection with the money problems. In 1869 according to the Emperor’s order the building was allowed to rebuilt as a man gymnasium. The gymnasium was named after Emperor Nicholas Pavlovich and in the memory of dead Tsesarevich Nicholas Alexandrovich, the inscription on the memorial plaque placed on the façade informed about it. The solemn ceremony of the opening of the Gymnasium took place in the presence of Alexander II and august persons on 8 September 1870 in the Town Council hall. The Gymnasium became famous for its teachers and pupils, among which there was the poet I.F. Annensky who headed the gymnasium and lived here since 1896 until 1905. N.N. Gumilyev, V.A. Komarovsky, V.A. Rozhdestvensky, N.N. Punin and many others were among pupils of the gymnasium.
Persons Alexander II, Emperor Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Gumilyov, N.N. Komarovsky, Vasily Alekseyevich, count Monighetti Ippolito Antonovich Nicholas I, Emperor Punin Nikolay Nikolaevich Rozhdestvensky Vsevolod Alexandrovich Vidov Alexander Fomich
Addresses Naberezhnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 12
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