Pavel Annenkov
Pavel Annenkov | |
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Born | Moscow, Russian Empire | July 1, 1813
Died | March 20, 1887 Dresden, German Empire | (aged 73)
Pavel Vasilyevich Annenkov (Russian: Па́вел Васи́льевич А́нненков) (July 1, 1813 – March 20, 1887) was a significant Russian Empire literary critic and memoirist.
Biography
Annenkov was born into a wealthy landowning family in Moscow. He attended the philological faculty of St Petersburg University. In the late 1830s he met Vissarion Belinsky, Alexander Herzen, Mikhail Bakunin and Ivan Turgenev, with whom he became lifelong friends. In the 1840s he went abroad and formed a close relationship with Nikolai Gogol.[1]
His letters from Europe appeared in the journal
He is best known now for his memoirs The Extraordinary Decade (1880), the title of which has become attached to the Russian literary generation coming up in the 1830s and 1840s.[3] During the 1880 Pushkin celebrations, he was given an honorary doctorate from Moscow University. He died in Dresden in 1887.[1]
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English Translations
- The Extraordinary Decade: Literary Memoirs, University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1968.