Odoevsky stress biography

St. Petersburg 2nd Krasnoarmeyskaya St. He is considered the “father of the Russian horror”, which in the 19th century was called “romanticism” and as an independent genre was not determined. Odoevsky was under the strong influence of German authors, especially Hoffmann and Schelling. He was fond of spiritualism and occult currents. Vladimir Fedorovich Odoevsky childhood and family Vladimir Fedorovich - the last representative of the princely kind of Odoevsky, direct descendants of the Rurikovich dynasty.

On the paternal line, Odoevsky is a distant relative of Leo Tolstoy. The father of Vladimir, Fedor Sergeyevich Odoevsky, died when the boy was 4 years old. His guardian became his father’s line, General Dmitry Andreevich Zakrevsky. She played piano, spoke French freely and had excellent manners. Despite this, the births of her husband despised her for low origin. The stress in the surname Odoevsky is put on the second letter O.

Moscow period Odoevsky studied at the Moscow University noble boarding house. In different years, the graduates of this institution were Zhukovsky, Turgenev, Dashkova, Pisarev. In the year, Odoevsky entered the service of the Moscow Archive of the College of Foreign Affairs. Soon Odoevsky created the so-called “society of any wisdom”-a literary and philosophical circle, which included Dmitry Venevitinov, Ivan Kireevsky.

The members of the circle studied German idealistic philosophy, read and discussed the works of Schelling, Benedict Spinoza, Kant. Vladimir Odoevsky in his youth among the circles was customary to make fun of each other. When one of them printed his book, he gave it to another with a gift inscription: “The stomach”. A friend added: “For transmission”, after which he put the book in sight ...

in a waste place. He married Olga Stepanovna Lanskaya, his daughter Hoffmarshal, and became a member of the Belinsky circle. It was published in the magazines "Contemporary" and "Bulletin of Europe".

Vladimir Odoevsky - the writer is unique, but the writer underestimated at leisure was engaged in chemistry. According to contemporaries, Odoevsky made disgusting sauces with which he treated his friends at the evenings in the evenings. It was a joke or lack of self -criticism, it is unknown, but family friends recalled these sauces with disgust and horror. With the same fervor, Odoevsky was fond of mysticism, magic, alchemy and Masonic teachings.

These hobbies greatly influenced the collection of terrible stories “Russian Nights”, which is considered the first example of the Russian horror. Stories amaze with madness and gloom, especially “Igor” and “Cosmorama”. He also wrote children's fairy tales, the most famous of which remains the story “City in a snuff -box”. The story of Vladimir Odoevsky “Town in the snuffbox” Vladimir Fedorovich adored music, wrote several plays for the piano and organ.

True, according to the memoirs of the same friends, the musical works of Odoevsky were no better than his sauces. Together with his wife, he was engaged in charity work, founded a hospital in St. Petersburg for the poor. He advocated for the abolition of serfdom, supported prison reform, played for the British court system with the participation of jury. Sponsored the organization and improvement of children's shelters.

Vladimir Odoevsky was actively engaged in charity, Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub in his memoirs spoke about the writer as follows: "The kindest, disinterested, almost holy minister of all elegant and useful." The bride's family disliked Vladimir Fedorovich. He, the cousin of the Decembrist Alexander Odoevsky, was considered a bad party for the "beautiful Creole", as her name was for the swarthy color of the skin.

Odoevsky himself did not approve of the secular lifestyle of his wife. Because of this, they often had disagreements. Olga Stepanovna Lanskaya, despite this, Olga Stepanovna was able to give Odoevsky the love that he so dreamed of in childhood, and, according to biographers, his mother replaced him. The couple managed the salon together: Odoevsky was responsible for the creative part, his wife established secular relations.

Unfortunately, they could not have children, and the Odoevsky clan was interrupted with the death of Vladimir. The death of Odoevsky died in the year. He was buried in the Don cemetery. The writer had no great fortune and after death, his wife did not leave anything. Olga survived him for 4 years, having spent the rest of the days in the monastery, and after death she was buried next to her husband.

The grave of Vladimir Odoevsky in the Donskoy cemetery of the biography.