Mikhail Kheraskov
Mikhail Matveyitch Cheraskow (Russian: Михаил Матвеевич Херасков; * 25 Oktoberjul / November 5 1733greg in Perejaslav ( Poltava province ), today Perejaslav -Khmelnytskyi ( Kiev Oblast, Ukraine ). .. . † 27 Septemberjul / October 9 1807greg in Moscow) was a Russian poet and writer. He is also known as the creator of the Masonic song later became text Kol Slavs.
Life
Cheraskow came from a wealthy boyar family, which had immigrated under Tsar Peter I of Wallachia to Russia, and was taught by private tutors. In 1751 he finished in Saint Petersburg training at the cadet school. Subsequently, he served in the Ingerman Regiment at St. Petersburg College and was on the trade worked. Already during his service as a cadet he wrote his first articles that were published in a monthly magazine.
Cheraskow joined in 1751 a position at the University of Moscow, continued to publish poems and was for two years its own magazine, the beneficial pleasures ( Полезное увеселение ). 1763 the poet was appointed director of the University; after an interlude at the Petersburg mine - College (1770-1778), he returned to Moscow, where he had until 1802 the post of curator of the University held.
Cherkaskow died 1807 in Moscow and was buried in the Donskoi Monastery.
Services
Contemporaries called Cheraskow a Russian Homer, because he cultivated the French pseudo- classical epic on Russian soil and two great epic poems to the glory of Russia wrote: The Rossiade ( Россияда, 1779), that the conquest of Kazan by Ivan sang the Terrible, and Vladimir ( Владимир Возрожденный, 1785 ), which had the Christianization of Russia on the subject.
Besides these two major works, which can be most likely classified as " sentimental classicism ", Cheraskow wrote 20 plays, novels, as well as fables, epic poems, songs and other texts. His novels developed from devotional literature about the " ideal state with a benevolent Tsar " ( Numa Pompilius or the flourishing Rome, 1768), to intricate love and adventure stories ( Cadmus and Harmonia, 1786).
Works
A German edition of his works did not appear. Some of his works have also been translated into German:
- The Battle of Tschesme ( Чесменский бой, 1771) Petersburg 1773 ( Poem )
- Numa Pompilius, or the flourishing Rome ( Нума Помпилий, 1768) St. Petersburg: Breitkopf in 1782 ( 1799 in Leipzig under the title Numa or the good prince and his happy people )