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Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov
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Dmitry Vladimirovich Venevitinov – a Russian poet of the Romantic movement, translator, prose writer, and philosopher. Venevitinov came from an old noble family and was a fourth cousin of A.S. Pushkin. The poet received an excellent home education: he was well versed in French, Greek and ancient Roman literature and in German philosophy, and showed talents for literature and music. From the age of 17 he attended Moscow University as an auditor.
From 1825 he served in the Moscow archive of the Collegium of Foreign Affairs and began to study philosophy in earnest. Venevitinov was one of the founders of the literary-philosophical journal "Moscow Messenger", translated Virgil and Goethe, worked in literary criticism, and wrote poetry.
At the end of 1826 Dmitry Vladimirovich moved to St. Petersburg and entered the service in the Asian Department of the Chancellery of Foreign Affairs. In the spring of 1827 the poet, overheated from dancing at a ball hosted by the Lansky family, went out lightly dressed. Shortly thereafter Venevitinov suddenly died as a result of a cold. He was buried at the Simonov Monastery in Moscow. In the 1930s his remains were transferred to the Novodevichy Monastery cemetery.
Date of birth
26 September 1805
Date of death
31 December 1904
Occupation
Poet