Alexander Bestuzhev

Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev (Russian Александр Александрович Бестужев, also Bestuzhev - Marlinsky; . * 23 Oktoberjul / November 3 1797greg in Saint Petersburg, . † 7 Junijul / June 19 1837greg at Adler. . ) Was a Russian writer.

Life

Bestuzhev was born the fifth child under five sons and three daughters of the officer, writer and educator Alexander Fedossejewitsch Bestuzhev and a merchant's daughter. His writing career began in 1817 with the first publication of his poems, translations and historical essays in leading Russian journals. In the 1820s, he first published an article under the pseudonym " A. Marlinskii ", which let be traced back to the Marli Pavilion in Peterhof, near which he had begun his first post. 1823-1825 he published the almanac "Polarstern" with Kondrati Ryleyev. As a member of Dekabristenvereinigung (North Bund) he was sentenced on August 22, 1826 to 15 years of forced labor, which he was to serve in Yakutsk. At the request of the family, he was transferred to military service in the Caucasus and met in mid-August 1829 in Tbilisi a. He was thus the only Decembrist the writer's guild, which was allowed to continue his career. Bestuzhev took during the Caucasus war in numerous military operations partially, received several awards, and died on June 7, 1837 in a skirmish with Eagle ( Black Sea Coast). He left behind a work that was extremely popular in his time among the Russian readership ( poetry, prose, reviews ) and temporarily even the popularity of Alexander Pushkin in the shade. His works for Caucasus, especially Ammalat -Bek (1831 ), founded his own style, which became known in Russia in the 1830s under the slogan " Marlinismus " and also influenced the works of Mikhail Lermontov and Tolstoy.