Osip Senkovsky

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Józef Sękowski

Osip Ivanovich Senkovsky (

entertainer
.

Life

Senkovsky was born into an old family of

University of St Petersburg
.

In the 1820s, Senkovsky started publishing in the popular periodicals of

Faddei Bulgarin. He is best remembered for having edited the first Russian "thick journal," Library for Reading (1833-1856), whose lively and humorous style (as Nikolai Gogol
put it) attracted to literary journals even those people who had never held a book in their hands.

Senkovsky encouraged new writers. He had a strong influence on Yelena Hahn[1] and on Elizaveta Akhmatova. In the latter case he not only developed a writer but she regarded him as a parent, Akhmatova would eventually publish her own magazines and in time her own memoir of Senkowsky.[2]

A very prolific writer, Senkovsky contributed articles on a wide range of topics, from

fantastic voyages, including one to the center of the Earth (The Sentimental Journey to Mount Etna) and another to an antediluvian Egyptian civilization flourishing on the now-frozen Siberian
plain (The Scientific Journey to Bear Island).

As a literary critic he had few principles, his motto being "easy reading and less thought". One day he would pronounce his friend

Tale of Bygone Years to be written in Polish
.

During his last years, Senkovsky turned from literature to music. He claimed to have invented a five-stringed violin and a new type of oven. He also published pioneering studies of Chinese,

Tibetan
languages.

He has been referred to as the founder of Litvinism.[3]

References

  1. ISBN 978-1-4438-2523-8
    .
  2. ISBN 978-0-313-26265-4
    .
  3. ^ Sutkus, Darius (2020). "Litvinizmas: istorija, prielaidos, perspektyvos" (PDF). Karys. 1.
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