Odoevsky brief biography

Odoevsky biography A. Odoevsky Alexander Ivanovich Odoevsky was born on November 26. He received a good home education. By December, Odoevsky was the cornet of the Life Guards of the Horse Regiment. A year before, he was admitted to the Northern Secret Society. Members of a secret society gather in his St. Petersburg apartment, and the immediate plans are being discussed.

In November, Odoevsky receives a vacation and leaves for the Vladimir province to visit his father. Who knows how his further fate of Odoevsky would have happened if in Moscow he had not met with I. both hurriedly returned to the northern capital to take part in the uprising. Then the arrest, several months in the Alekseevsky ravelin, investigation, sentence.

Odoevsky was convicted of 12 years of hard labor. In February, first in the Chita prison, three years later in the Petrovsky factory. Since December, and after another 5 years he, together with his comrades Lorers, Naryshkin, Rosen, was transferred to the Caucasus Corps “to these gentlemen the path to Russia lies through the Caucasus,” wrote Nicholas I. Odoevsky dies from a serious illness.

Odoevsky reached us a little more than three thousand lines. A brilliant improviser, he did not like to rewrite his poems “I almost never put my poems on paper,” he wrote to his father on November 22, Odoevsky’s poems were preserved thanks to the excellent memory of his friends, “sob” by prison and exile. Odoevsky’s autographs were almost not preserved, all those who have reached us are rewritten by his comrades.

Therefore, the dating of some poems by Odoevsky is very arbitrary. During the life of A. Odoevsky, several of his poems, without indicating the name of the author, were published in Pushkin and Delvig's editions “Literary Gazeta” and “Northern Flowers”. In Rosen, a complete collection of poems A. Odoevsky, a poet of the Decembrist hard labor, publishes. Very little is known about his work before the uprising.

In his free hours, he, by his own admission, reads a lot and composes a lot “sometimes dreams that I am a poet Odoevsky writes to the cousin of Vl. The Odoevsky publisher of Mnemosins, that he has “a dozen AD, as many messages, five or six elements and the beginning of two poems, this can be explained to some extent that the poet’s excessive exactingness to his work and excessive, overstated severity.

But - gg. The circle of his social and creative interests is wide. At this time, his friendship with A. Griboedov, with V. Kuchelbecker, communicates with people close to him in spirit-K. Ryleyev and A. Bestuzhev-Marlin's publishers of the Polar Star-they are brought closer to literary interests and to a certain extent political views. On Senate Square, A. Odoevsky was sure that he would die for free Russia, for the good of the Fatherland.

His words reached us: “We will die, oh how glorious we will die! But the prison, where he spent several months, forced loneliness, terrible monotony of everyday life, the constant question “What will happen? However, even in this “coffin”, where the poet’s own words “buried” him, he manages to write poetry: maybe this saved him from the terrible fate - madness.