Nikolay Yazykov
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Nikolay Mikhailovich Yazykov (
Slavophile who in the 1820s rivalled Alexander Pushkin and Yevgeny Baratynsky
as the most popular poet of his generation.
Biography
Yazykov was born in
Anacreontic verse in praise of the students' merry life. For his summer vacations he went to Trigorskoye
, where he met Pushkin.
After leaving Dorpat, without a degree, Yazykov lived between Moscow and his Simbirsk estate. Later in life, he became intimate with the nationalist and Slavophile circles of Moscow, which held his poetry in high esteem.
Nikolay Gogol, in particular, favoured Yazykov over all other living poets. The young idealists grouping around Nikolai Stankevich
, however, dismissed his work as contemptibly lacking in ideas.
Yazykov's health, undermined by the excesses of his student life, began to fail very early, and from about 1835 he was a restless wanderer from one health resort to another. The Genoese
Pyotr Kireyevsky
.
Apart from Pushkin, Yazykov was also close to
Nikolay Gogol and was Khomyakov's brother-in-law. It was the death of his sister that triggered Gogol's fatal depression. According to his wishes, the great novelist was buried next to the Yazykovs in the Danilov Monastery. In 1931, the remains of Yazykov, Gogol and Khomyakov were reburied at the Novodevichy Cemetery
.
champagne
. Indeed, his early (and best known) poetry is devoted to the praise of wine and merrymaking, producing an effect of the almost physical intoxication and verbal rush.
See also
References
This article incorporates text from D.S. Mirsky's "A History of Russian Literature" (1926-27), a publication now in the public domain.
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