Pogorelian biography of the work

Anthony Pogorelsky is a literary pseudonym of a Russian writer and a member of the Russian Academy Alexei Perovsky. Brief biography Alexei Alekseevich was born in the year in Moscow. He spent his childhood on the estate of his father Alexei Kirillovich Razumovsky, a real state adviser, where he received a good home education. The young man graduated from the Imperial Moscow University, having received the degree of a doctor of philosophical and verbal sciences.

He later made friendship with Peter Andreevich Vyazemsky, met Zhukovsky, Voeikov and other prominent writers of that time. Until the beginning of the Patriotic War of the year, the young count served in the sixth department of the Senate. But soon Perovsky decided to sharply change his life and, going against his father, entered military service.

Alexei was enrolled in the 3-Ukrainian Cossack Regiment, and then-transferred to the Life Guard of the Ulan regiment. Until a year, he served in the Kingdom of Saxony, where he became interested in German romanticism, in particular the work of Ernst Hoffmann. Later, the man became one of the first Russian authors who used the tradition of German romanticism in his work.

Literary work in the post -war years, having retired, Alexei Alekseevich returned to Petersburg, where he entered the service in the spiritual affairs department of foreign religions. He began to attend meetings of the “Arzamas Society of Unknown People” or just Arzamas: a literary circle uniting writers who decided to fight archaic tastes and traditions in literature.

The members of Arzamas were Alexander Pushkin, Vasily Zhukovsky, Konstantin Batyushkov and other writers, as well as political and public figures. Then the literary debut of Anthony Pogorelsky took place. His story "Lafa Fryeen" was the first fantastic narrative of a romantic type in Russian literature. The work was so unusual for that time that the editor even had to release special material with an explanation of the denouement.

The writer's father died in the year, and Alexei Alekseevich moved to the Pogoreltsy estate. He lived there with his sister and nephew Alexei Tolstoy. In the year, already returning to Petersburg, Pogorelsky published the book “Double, or my evenings in Little Russia”. This work also ahead of its time. It gained great popularity in the circles of readers and writers, but the most critics did not accept the book, defining it as ridiculous fiction.

A year later, the man published the fairy tale "Black Chicken, or Underground Residents." In the year, he published the moralizing novel "Monastery". Go out, Perovsky was engaged in the education of the nephew, traveled around Russia and the world. He died on July 21 on the way to Nice, where he was heading for the treatment of tuberculosis. Similar authors.