Pyotr Pletnyov
Portrait by Alexey Tyranov
Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov (
Petersburg Academy of Sciences
(1841).
Pletnyov befriended the poet
Nikolai Nekrasov in 1846. As a critic, he was strongly opposed to Vissarion Belinsky
and like-minded journalists who placed "progressive ideas" above the artistic mastership.
With Sergey Uvarov's support, Pletnyov gained many teaching assignments, in and around Saint Petersburg, including in the end a tutor's post to the future Alexander II. His non-partisan view of various literary movements helped him to single out and applaud all of the most gifted writers of the day, from Vasily Zhukovsky through Nikolai Gogol to Fyodor Dostoevsky.
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