- Vladimir Sollogub
Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub ( _ru. Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соллогу́б) (
August 20 ,1813 ,St. Petersburg —June 17 ,1882 ,Hamburg ) was a minorRussia n writer, author of novelettes, essays, plays, and memoirs.His paternal grandfather was a Polish aristocrat, and he grew up in the midst of
St. Petersburg high society. [Michael Pursglove, "V.A. Sollogub and "High Society"," in "The Society Tale in Russian Literature: From Odoevskii to Tolstoi", ed. Neil Cornwell (Rodopi, 1998).] He graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1834 and was attached to the Ministry of Internal Affairs the following year. His literary career began in 1837 in the journal "Sovremennik ". In 1840 he married Sofya Mikhailovna Velgorskaya. In 1843 he visitedNice and metGogol . From 1856 he was an Officer for Special Commissions in the imperial court; he took an interest in prison reform, and from 1875 was сhair of the Commission for the Reorganization of Prisons in Russia. In 1858 he was sent abroad to study European theater, and in 1877 he became an official historian at court.Sollogub was a connoisseur of theatrical life and of St. Petersburg society, in which he hosted a well-known literary and musical salon; he brought to life the atmosphere of St. Petersburg of that era in his "Memoirs" (1887). He is best known for his 1845 novelette "Tarantas" ("The
Tarantass "), "a satirical journey fromMoscow to Kazán in a tumble-down traveling cart. The satire, superficial and uninspired, is directed against the ideas of theSlavophil s and the unpractical dreaminess of the romantic idealists." [D. S. Mirsky , "A History of Russian Literature from its Beginnings to 1900" (repr. Northwestern Univ. Press, 1999), p. 165.]References
Bibliography
* Neil Cornwell and Nicole Christian (eds.), "Reference Guide to Russian Literature" (Taylor & Francis, 1998), pp. 759-760.
External links
* [http://www.encspb.ru/en/article.php?kod=2804026977 Saint Petersburg Encyclopaedia entry]
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