Ippolit Bogdanovich

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Ippolit Bogdanovich
Born(1743-12-23)December 23, 1743
Perevolochna, Poltava Regiment, Cossack Hetmanate
DiedJanuary 6, 1803(1803-01-06) (aged 59)
Kursk, Kursk Governorate, Russian Empire
Alma materImperial Moscow University (1763)

Ippolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich (Russian: Ипполи́т Фёдорович Богдано́вич, IPA:

classicist author of light poetry
, best known for his long poem Dushenka (1778).

Biography

Coming from a noble Ukrainian family, Bogdanovich studied in the

Rousseau
at loose hours.

It was in 1778 that Bogdanovich brought out his only work of lasting fame, Dushenka. This long poem, resembling a

Catherine II of Russia engaged him to write several comedies for her Hermitage Theatre. An English translation can be found in the anthology The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia.[2]

Assessment

One of Tolstoy's Neoclassical illustrations to Dushenka (1820-33).

By 1841, Bogdanovich's chef d'oeuvre went through 15 editions. Today, it is remembered primarily for

Lyceum
years but later discarded Bogdanovich's verse as immature.

Nabokov summed up contemporary opinion about Dushenka in the following dictum: "The airiness of its tetrametric passages and its glancing mother-of-pearl wit are foregleams of young Pushkin's art; it is a significant stage in the development of Russian poetry; its naive colloquial melodies also influenced Pushkin's direct predecessors, Karamzin, Batyushkov, and Zhukovsky.[3]

References

  1. ISBN 0-521-42567-0
    . Page 83.
  2. ^ The Literature of Eighteenth-Century Russia, Vol. II, edited and translated by Harold B Segel, E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1967.
  3. ISBN 0-691-01904-5
    . Page 137.

Bibliography

External links
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