Vladimir Odoyevsky

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In this name that follows Eastern Slavic naming customs, the patronymic is Fyodorovich and the family name is Odoyevsky.
Vladimir Odoyevsky
Levitsky, 1856
Born(1803-08-13)13 August 1803
Moscow
Died11 March 1869(1869-03-11) (aged 65)
Moscow

Prince Vladimir Fyodorovich Odoyevsky (

musical criticism
.

Biography

The last member of the princely

House of Rurik. He was born to Prince Fyodor Sergeevich Odoyevsky (1771–1808), a state councillor (statsky sovietnik). His father started out as an adjutant of Prince Grigory Potyomkin, then, in 1798 he entered civil service as the director of the Moscow Assignant bank.[3] According to one version, his mother, Ekaterina Alekseevna Filippova, was a serf,[1] however, this version has been proven wrong, and it was found out that his mother was a daughter of a praporschik.[4] His widow, Avdotya Petrovna, had a house on the Prechistenka street in Moscow, several servants and a small fortune from her husband.[5] His mother was a well-educated young lady; she could speak French and play the piano.[5] However, the Odoyevsky family regarded this marriage as misalliance. And after his father's death in 1808, his mother was married twice.[5] Part of his childhood was spent with his grandfather, colonel Prince Sergey Ivanovich Odoyevsky,[5] but when he died, his estate in Kostroma Governorate ended up in the hands of an acquaintance of Vladimir's maternal grandmother, the widow of a general, Agrafena Glazova, who took over the properties.[5] In 1812 his mother's house in Moscow was burned down in fire, and he and his mother lived at the estate of Drokovo in Ryazan Governorate, which she took over. While her son was away studying at a boarding school, in 1818–1819 she married sub-porutchik Pavel Sechenov, and having given custody of her son to Agrafena Glazova, settled at Drokovo with her new husband.[5] P. Sechenov turned out to be an abusive husband.[5] Vladimir ended up owing much debt to Glazova, and having settled liabilities, he moved to his grandfather's estate being almost completely broke.[5]

Considered by his contemporaries as a typical Muscovite, he was educated at the Nobility School of the

Slavophiles and Westernizers
, but refused to identify himself with any of these movements.

Since 1824, Odoyevsky was active as a literary critic and journalist. In 1824 he and

Imperial Public Library
.

In the mid-1830s, he co-edited the

Donskoy monastery
necropolis.

Short stories

Odoevsky in the 1840s; lithograph by Kirill Gorbunov

Aspiring to imitate

Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin
.

Following the success of Pushkin's The Queen of Spades, Odoyevsky wrote a number of similar stories on the dissipated life of the Russian aristocracy (e.g., Princess Mimi and Princess Zizi). On account of his many short stories from the 1820s and 1830s, Odoyevsky should be listed among the pioneers of the impressionistic short story in Europe.

His most mature book was the collection of essays and novellas entitled Russian Nights (1844). Loosely patterned after the Noctes Atticae, the book took two decades to complete. It contains some of Odoyevsky's best known fiction, including the dystopian novellas The Last Suicide and The Town with No Name. The stories are interlaced with philosophic conversations redolent of the French Encyclopedists.

Musical criticism

As a music critic, Odoyevsky set out to propagate the national style of

Dmitri Bortniansky.[7] He also wrote a romanticised biography of the Russian violinist Ivan Khandoshkin, whose career he presented as thwarted by the malign influence of such Italian musicians as Giuseppe Sarti.[8] Among his many articles on musical subjects, a treatise about old Russian church singing deserves particular attention, though he expressed strong distaste for strochnoy (early Russian polyphonic) chant: "No human ear could possibly bear the succession of seconds that are constantly to be encountered."[9] Johann Sebastian Bach and Beethoven appear as characters in some of his novellas. Odoyevsky was active in the foundation of the Russian Musical Society, Moscow Conservatory, and St. Petersburg Conservatory
.

Technology

Odoyevsky took part in development of electroplating technology, invented by Moritz von Jacobi in Russia. In 1844 Odoyevsky wrote a book, Galvanism applied in technology (Гальванизм в техническом применении). He made a number of experiments and developed cobalt electroplating.[10]

Works

English translations

  • Princess Mimi, The Sylph, and The Live Corpse, (stories), from Russian Romantic Prose: An Anthology, Translation Press, 1979.
  • The Salamander and Other Stories, (stories), Gerald Duckworth, 1992.
  • Two Princesses, (novel), Hesperus Press, 2010.
  • Two Days in the Life of the Terrestrial Globe and Other Stories, (stories), Ama Classics, 2012.

References

  1. ^ a b Владимир Федорович Одоевский. Библиографический указатель. Энциклопедия Хоронос//http://hrono.ru/biograf/bio_o/odoevski_vf.php
  2. ^ "Родословная роспись князей Одоевских". genealogia.ru. Retrieved 21 May 2015.
  3. ^ "ОДОЕВСКИЙ :: Персональный список". baza.vgdru.com. Retrieved Aug 28, 2020.
  4. ^ Владимир Одоевский. Сказки дедушки Иринея. Пёстрые сказки. Эл. книга. Aegitas, 24 июл. 2016 г.
  5. ^ a b c d e f g h Лукьянова Ирина. Блаженны чистые сердцем./Журнал “Русский мир.ru” / 2014 / Август//https://russkiymir.ru/media/magazines/article/146967/
  6. ISBN 978-1-4742-4141-0
    .
  7. ^ Ritzarev (2006): p. 341
  8. ^ Ritzarev (2006): p. 197
  9. ^ V. Martynov: "Divine Liturgy for the Feast of St Peter and St Paul" CD note, Opus 111 OPS 30-161.
  10. ^ "History of electroplating in the 19th century Russia". Archived from the original on Mar 5, 2012. Retrieved Aug 28, 2020.
Sources
  • Ritzarev, Marina (2006). Eighteenth-Century Russian Music. Aldershot: Ashgate.
    ISBN 0754634663
    .

External links

Тухманова, З. (2005). «Энгармоническое фортепиано князя В. Ф. Одоевского». Старинная музыка (Литературное агентство ПРЕСТ) 29-30: 23–6.

ISSN 1999-6810
.

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