Listen to Baratynskys biography

Years of life: March 02 - July 11, country: Russian Empire Sphere of Activities: the poet of the famous Russian poet of the Golden Age was born in a noble family. His father was a landowner, a retired lieutenant general. As a child, Boratynsky studied at the private German boarding house in St. Petersburg, and at the age of 12 he was sent to the Page Corps. However, pranks and refusal to obey the order of the corps led to the fact that two years later he was excluded from there with the ban on entering military service, except as ordinary.

At the beginning of the year, Boratynsky nevertheless decided to follow in the footsteps of his ancestors and entered the Hunting Regiment in the Life Guards. He settled in the same apartment with Delvig, made friends with Pushkin, Kuchelbeker, Gnedich and began to be printed. In the year, Boratynsky received a non-commissioned officer’s rank and was transferred to the regiment of his relative, standing in Finland.

The severity of the northern nature made a great impression on this romantic poet. In the year, he was appointed to the headquarters of General Zakrevsky, where he became carried away by his wife, Pushkin's copper Venus. The next year he was promoted to officers. In the year, due to his mother’s illness, Boratynsky resigned and settled in Moscow, having married Anastasia Engelhardt-the cousin of his wife Denis Davydov.

After the publication of the poems “Ed” and “Feasted” in the year, public opinion put him in the ranks of the best poets of his time. From the year, Boratynsky was in the civil service, in particular as a provincial secretary. After resignation, Boratynsky went into private life, equipped the dowry wife - the Muranovo estate later - the Tyutchev Museum, a relative of Engelhardt. In the year, Boratynsky and his wife and three of his nine children went on a foreign trip.

In Naples, he died of a break of his heart. Along with the writing of the surname through O - Boratynsky, there was a more common option with the letter A. He was fixed in encyclopedias and dictionaries, and not the last role in resolving this issue was played by Pushkin, responding about the poetry of a friend, wrote about him “Baratynsky”. Meanwhile, the spelling of the surname through O dominates in literary criticism starting in the 10ths and is confirmed by biographical information.

So, the surname of the Boratynsky family, as stated in the work of the poet’s nephew, comes from the name of the Boratin Castle in Galicia. After one of the representatives of the clan moved to Russian citizenship, due to the features of the new language, the letter A. began to prevail in writing that the double version of the surname delivered a lot of trouble when it came to official documents.

However, in the official publication of works and in his last collection, he used another option - Boratynsky in the signature. Also-through O-his surname is immortalized on the tomb of the poet in the Alexander Nevsky Lavra. In publications.