Pyotr Vyazemsky

• Honorific Prefix — Prince • Name — Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky • Born — 23 July 1792 • Birthplace — Moscow, Russia • Died — 22 November 1878 • Place of death — Baden-Baden • Burial Place — Tikhvin Cemetery, St. Petersburg, Russia • Noble Family — House of Vyazemsky • Issue — eight, including Pavel Vyasemsky • Father — Prince Andrey Vyazemsky • Mother — Jenny Quinn O'Reilly • Occupation — Poet

His parents were a Russian prince of Rurikid stock, Prince Andrey Vyazemsky (1754–1807), and an Irish lady, Jenny Quinn O'Reilly (1762–1802), rechristened and russified as Evgenia Ivanovna Vyazemskaya. As a young man he took part in the Battle of Borodino and other engagements of the Napoleonic Wars. Many years later, Tolstoy's description of the battle in War and Peace appeared inaccurate to him, and he engaged in a literary feud with the great novelist. • Illustration — Princess Vera, nee Gagarina, Pyotr's wife In the 1820s Vyazemsky was the most combative and brilliant champion of what then went by the name of Romanticism. Both Prince Pyotr and his wife Princess Vera (née Gagarina) were on intimate terms with Alexander Pushkin, who often visited their family seat at Ostafievo near Moscow (now a literary museum). Unsurprisingly, Vyazemsky is quoted in Pushkin's works, including Eugene Onegin. The two friends also exchanged several epistles in verse. Vyazemsky and the other leading Russian liberals, such as Pushkin and Alexander and Nikolay Turgenev, were all heavily shaped by the Kantian teachings of Alexander Kunitsyn and often discussed their attitudes on serfdom, the Russian administrative and legal system, civil society, and foreign policy through private correspondence, where Vyazemsky was highly critical of the administration's abuses in the western provinces. He also published a prospectus declaring an "uncompromising war to all the prejudices, vices and absurdity that reign in our society." At that time, the elderly poet gained admission to the Russian court, in part through his daughter's marriage to Pyotr Valuev, the future Chairman of the Committee of Ministers. In the 1850s, Vyazemsky served as a deputy minister of education and was in charge of state censorship. In 1863, he settled abroad on account of bad health. Prince Vyazemsky died in Baden-Baden, but his body was brought to Saint Petersburg and buried there.

The authorities additionally record the headings Petr Andreevich Viazemsky and Pyotr Andreyevich Vyazemsky. His recorded language was Russian. He was the child of Andrey Vyazemsky. He married Vera Vyazemskaya. 4 children are recorded: Pavel Vyasemsky, Maria Petrovna Valueva (nee Vyazemskaya), Praskoviya Petrovna Vyazemskaya and Nadezhda Petrovna Vyazemskaya.

Pyotr Vyazemsky is recorded with the occupation literary critic. Classed in the genre biography. Classed in the genre epigram. Classed in the genre satire. Recorded as poet, translator, linguist and writer.