Pyotr Pletnyov
Illustration — Portrait by Alexey Tyranov, 1836 Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov (in Tebleshi, Tver Governorate –) was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840–61) and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841). Pletnyov befriended the poet Alexander Pushkin, who dedicated his novel in verse Eugene Onegin to him. After Pushkin's death in 1837, Pletnyov edited his literary journal Sovremennik until the latter was sold to Nikolai Nekrasov in 1846.
Also recorded as Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov
Pyotr Pletnyov
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- Born
- 1792 · Bezhetsky Uyezd.
- Died
- 1866 · Paris.
- Nationality
- Russian Empire
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- linguist · journalist · poet · literary critic · literary historian · university teacher · publisher · literary scholar
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- literature · literary criticism · poetry · publishing
- Education
- Tver seminary · Main Pedagogical Institute
- Languages
- Russian
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Born at Bezhetsky Uyezd in 1792, died in Paris in 1866.
Pyotr Pletnyov studied at Tver seminary and Main Pedagogical Institute. The recorded working language is Russian. The field of work recorded is literature, literary criticism and poetry. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are narrative poetry. Employment is recorded with Imperial St. Positions recorded include rector and university teacher.
Portrait of Pyotr Pletnyov (1836). The Pushkin Museum in St Petersburg.
Alexey Vassilievich Tyranov
Signature of Pyotr Pletnyov, from the book «Gallery of Russian writers», 1901, page 188.
Petr Aleksandrovich Pletnev · book scan
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