Biography of Derzhavin Poet

Biography Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin was born on July 3 near Kazan in an impoverished noble family. After the death of his father in the year, Derzhavin's family was in a difficult financial situation. Until the age of 14, Gabriel did not receive a systematic education: his clergy was taught by a clerk, arithmetic - his father’s colleagues, elementary knowledge - the exiled German Rose, who taught Derzhavin and the German language.

In the year he entered the Kazan gymnasium after its opening. In addition to classic subjects, the gymnasium was taught music and drawing, in which Derzhavin achieved special success. As part of the Preobrazhensky regiment, he participated in the palace coup on June 28, which brought to the throne Catherine II. Derzhavin for a long time did not receive raises in the rank, since he did not have a sufficient patronage.

Only after ten years of the soldier’s service, he was promoted to officers, and as a member of the secret investigative commission in the years, he took an active part in the pacification of the rebellion led by Emelyan Pugachev. Many facts about the uprising have come to date only thanks to Derzhavin's notes. Then he began to write poetry, published two years later under the name “Odes, translated and composed at the Chitalagay Mountain”, as well as translate the Odes of the Prussian king Frederick II.

In the year, after resigning, according to the patronage of Prince A. Vyazemsky, Derzhavin entered the government of the Government Senate. At the end of the x, a fracture began in Derzhavin’s poetic activity. He began to gradually move away from classic canons, trying to find his own artistic method. Since the year, Derzhavin was a member of the Imperial Russian Academy, created by Princess E.

Dashkova and Catherine II - the Center for the Study of the Russian Language and Literature in St. Petersburg. Together with other academicians, G. Derzhavin took an active part in the compilation and publication of the first explanatory dictionary of the Russian language - the “Dictionary of the Russian Academy”. In the year, by decree of Catherine II, Derzhavin was appointed to the post of governor of Olonets governorship.

Here he carried out the provincial reform, created the provincial administrative, financial and judicial institutions, as well as the first in the province of a general civilian institution - a state hospital and a pharmacy. He took a direct part in the work to clarify the Russian-Swedish border, drawing up plans of county cities and the maps of the Olonets governorship.

The images of Karelia were reflected in the work of G. - Years Derzhavin became the governor of the Tambov governorship, where he also made a lot for the development of the region: several people's schools, the theater, orphan, a hospital, a hospital and a printing house were discovered, in which the first provincial newspaper Tambov Izvestia was published in the Russian Empire.

Under the leadership of Provincial, Derzhavin tried to fight corruption in the field and wanted to restore order in the paperwork, which led him to the expected conflicts. In the year, Derzhavin returned to St. Petersburg, where the Catherine II cabinet was appointed to control the compliance with the legality of the Senate decisions. Later he became a senator, and in the year-the president of the commercial college.

During these years, he created the famous Odes “God”, “Blind of Victory, give out! By the beginning of the year, after the death of Catherine II, Derzhavin turned in his work to anacreontic poetry glorifying earthly life. In the year, his collection of “Anacreont's Songs” was published, which included works filled with an epicurean attitude to the world.

Derzhavin continued to actively participate in the state life of the country, occupying various high administrative positions: the ruler of the Chancellery of the Senate, the State Treasury and the Minister of Justice. After the murder of Paul I, Derzhavin demanded an investigation of the circumstances of his death, which was due to which he was temporarily dismissed from all posts except the senatorial.

Having retired in the year, he settled on his estate a jar in the Novgorod province, where he continued to write. He was also engaged in the preparation of his own collected works. During these years, Derzhavin was in the literary society “Conversation of lovers of the Russian Word”, who advocated the preservation of the archaic Russian language and style. Nevertheless, the poet was one of the first to notice the talent of young A.

Pushkin, whose poems he heard in the exam at the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Lyceum in January. Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin died on July 8 in the estate of a jar in the Novgorod region, was buried in the Spaso-Preobrazhensky Cathedral of the Varlaamo-Khutynsky monastery near Veliky Novgorod. Briliant S. Derzhavin: his life, literary activity and service: biographical essay.

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