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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.
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MANDELSTAM Osip Emilievich (1891-1938), poet. The family of Mandelstam came to St. Petersburg in 1897 (before that, from 1894 lived in Pavlovsk of St. Petersburg Province); some addresses are 17 Ofitserskaya Street (today Dekabristov Street) ... | | MANDELSTAM Osip Emilievich (1891-1938), poet. The family of Mandelstam came to St. Petersburg in 1897 (before that, from 1894 lived in Pavlovsk of St. Petersburg Province); some addresses are 17 Ofitserskaya Street (today Dekabristov Street), then - closer to Tenishevsky School, where Mandelstam studied in 1900-07, 49 Liteiny Avenue, 15 Liteiny Avenue, etc. From 1909 Mandelstam attended Ivanov's Wednesday meetings, from 1911 he was a student of Historical -Philological Faculty of Petersburg University (didn't graduate), his works were published in journals Apollon and Giperborey, one of the prominent figures of Brodyachaya Sobaka (Stray Dog) Literary and Artistic Cabaret. Initially a symbolist, Mandelstam quickly became a member of the Guild of Poets and joined the Acmeism movement (see Mandelstam's manifesto The Morning Of Acmeism), published his first collections of poems The Stone (1913, second edition - 1915), the core of which poems about the architectural masterpieces of Western Europe and St. Petersburg form (The Admiralty, Free it ran out into the square..., Palace Square, also Petersburg Stanzas, Tsarskoe Selo). In 1918-20 Mandelstam travelled a lot around Russia, the winter of 1920-21 he spent in St. Petersburg (lived in the House of Arts), wrote a number of poems, that were included in his second collection Tristia (1922, in the original version - The Second Book, 1923). In the 1920s Mandelstam turned to genres of autobiography and essay (The Din Of Time, 1925; The Egyptian Stamp, 1928; Journey to Armenia, 1933; etc.), wrote a number of poetic philosophical articles (collection About Poetry, 1928; Conversation about Dante, 1933), did some translating. From the early 1920s lived mainly in Moscow and in the South of Russia, paid short visits to Leningrad; in 1924-25 he lived at 49 Herzen Street (today Bolshaya Morskaya), in 1925 - in the sanatorium in Detskoe Selo (the wife of Mandelstam, N.Y. Mandelstam, suffered from tuberculosis), from late 1930 to early 1931 he lived at 31 Eighth Line of Vasilievsky Island, with his brother, E.E. Mandelstam (memorial plaque in memory of the poem written here "I have returned to my city..."). Two literary evenings, Mandelstam held during his visit to Leningrad in 1933, remained in the memory of his contemporaries. After some sharp political poems had received publicity in May 1934, he was arrested and spent three years in exile in Voronezh. In the autumn of 1937 he visited Leningrad for the last time. In May 1938 he was again arrested, died in the holding centre not far from Vladivostok. References: Я вернулся в мой город: Петербург Мандельштама. Л., 1991; Лекманов О. А. Жизнь О. Мандельштама. СПб., 2003. T. M. Dvinyatina.
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4 March. On N.S. Gumilyov's initiative I.F. Annensky was acquainted with the critic S.K. Makovsky and the poet M.A. Voloshin in the flat of I.F. Annensky in Sophia Town ... | | 4 March. On N.S. Gumilyov's initiative I.F. Annensky was acquainted with the critic S.K. Makovsky and the poet M.A. Voloshin in the flat of I.F. Annensky in Sophia Town. Annensky enthusiastically supported Makovsky's idea about creating the literary magazine "Apollon" and accepted the offer to be a member of the magazine editorial staff. In the same year Annensky was acquainted with poets O. Mandelshtam and M. Kuzmin and had the last meeting with A. Blok in Tsarskoye Selo. 30 April. Russian young scouts' campfire was lighted in the Pavlovsk Park. On this day the first in Russia detachment of Tsarskoye Selo scouts was formed on the initiative of Oleg Ivanovich Pantyukhov, Staff-Captain of the First Life Guard His Emperor Majesty Infantry Regiment. The summer. The staging of Schiller's tragedy "Missianskaya nevesta" ("Die Braut von Messina ( The Bride of Messina")) in translation of Grand Duke K. Romanov (K.R.) with his participation and with participation of officers of the Life Guard Izmailovsky Regiment (the society "Izmailovsky dosug" ("The Leisure of the Izmailovsky Regiment Officers")) was performed in the Chinese Theatre. 20 July. The ceremonial laying of the Fiodorovsky Emperor Cathedral took place in the presence of the whole Tsar's family. 30 November. The outstanding Russian poet I.F. Annensky suddenly died as a result of the heart failure on footsteps of the Vitebsk Railway Station. In the same evening Annensky's corpse was delivered from Saint Petersburg to Tsarskoye Selo in a special coach. On 4 December Annensky was performed the burial service in the Rozhdestvenskaya Chuch at the gymnasium and then Annensky was burried in the Kazan Cemetery. Vera Ignatyevna Gedroits , the first in Russia woman-surgeon, St. George order-bearer, Princess, poet and writer (her pseudonym is Sergey Gedroits) who got the spoken nickname "George Sand of Tsarskoye Seko", was appointed as an attending physician of the Tsarskoye Selo Palace Hospital. The Palace and town telephone exchange worked in Tsarskoye Selo as well as public telephone call-boxes worked at the railway station and in Sophia Town.
Persons Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich Blok G.P. Gedroits, Vera Ignatyevna, princess Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich Konstantin Konstantinovich, Grand Prince Kuzmin Mikhail Alexeevich Makovsky Sergey Konstantinovich Mandelstam Osip Emilievich Pantyukhov Oleg Ivanovich Voloshin Maximillian Alexandrovich
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The spring. A.A. Akhmatova, O.E. and N.Ya. Mandelshtam lived in the boarding house of Zaitsev in Detskoye Selo where they were visited by Pavel Luknitsky collecting materials about N.S. Gumilyov ... | | | | | | | |
