Vladimir Odoyevsky

Vladimir Fedorovich Odojewski (Russian: Владимир Фёдорович Одоевский, scientific transliteration Vladimir Fedorovic Odoevskij; * 1 Augustjul / August 13 1803greg in Moscow, .. .. † 27 Februarjul / 11 March 1869greg ibid.) was a Russian writer and composer.

A native of high nobility and comprehensively educated prince Odojewski had a national mandate as vice-director of the Imperial Public Library in St. Petersburg. Since 1846 he was also director of the Rumyantsev Museum, he moved with his relocation to Moscow in 1862 there. He became particularly apparent as the author of fantastic and satirical short stories and novellas musicians. Of his compositions only seemed a Berceuse in print, his other compositions, including many folk song arrangements, have survived only in manuscript.

The writer and literary critic, the forerunner of an independent Russian literature beyond the hitherto dominant poetry was influenced colleagues like Turgenev, Tolstoy and Chekhov. Dostoyevsky known in 1861 in a letter that he was " greatly admire him and many of his works love ".

The 2013 Manesseplatz Publisher newly published book The Black Glove contains seven predominantly first translated stories from the 1820s and 1830s. It shows Odojewski as philosophically and morally interested and linked fantastically romantic motives with psychological acumen, offers aristocratic satire and plenty of irony.

Works

  • The black glove, stories, from the Russian and with an afterword by Peter Urban, Manesseplatz publisher. Munich, 2013. 384 pp. ISBN 978-3-7175-2246-1.
  • Russian nights, cycle of short stories (1844 ), from the Russian by Eckhard Thiele, ( ed. Klaus Städtke ) Rütten & Thiele Berlin, 1987. 374 S.
  • Princess Mimi novella (1834 )
  • Princess Zizi novella (1839 )
  • Wagner in Moscow ( 1863)
  • The year 4338
  • Kosmorama
  • The ghost and other ghost stories, Spukerzählungen, from the Russian by Werner Creutziger, Charlotte Kossuth and Dieter Pommerenke, Aufbau-Verlag Berlin and Weimar. Berlin, 1974. 154 S.
  • Mnemosyne (1824 /25)
  • The last quartet of Beethoven ( 1830)
  • Opere del Cavaliere Giambatista Piranesi (1832 )
  • Sebastian Bach ( 1834)
  • Colorful tales cycle of short stories ( 1833)
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