Barkov Ivan Semenovich Biography

Ivan Barkov Biography of the author, books by Ivan Barkov Ivan Semenovich Barkov - - Russian poet, author of erotic, “shameful OD”, translator of the Academy of Sciences, student of Mikhail Lomonosov, whose poetic works parody. Its biography has overgrown with a huge number of legends. The son of a priest. In the year he entered the theological seminary at the Alexander Nevsky Monastery, where he studied for five years, reaching the class of “piics”.

On the recommendation of M. Lomonosov, who noted the “acute concept” of the young man and the good knowledge of the Latin language “he and professor lectures can understand”, was originally among students of the Academy of Sciences initially in the academic gymnasium. Barkov studied unevenly, he was seized several times for drunkenness and hooligan tricks, once - for rudeness and false denunciation to the rector of the University of Stepan Krasheninnikov - he was even chained into shackles.

In the year, from among the students of Barkov, they “unclenched” the leaders of the academic printing house, but in M, after a series of his requests, they transferred the “copyist” to the Academic Chancellery to a more honorable position. In the years he was a full -time scribe under Lomonosov: he twice rewrote his Russian grammar, took a copy for him from the Radziwill List of the Nikonova Chronicle, and carried out other instructions.

With Lomonosov, Barkov had a close relationship. Lomonosov appreciated him and often used to say: “You do not know, Ivan, the prices of yourself, believe me, do not know! Despite some liberties in handling the original, the publication prepared by him has long remained the main source in ancient Russian history. In the written affairs of the president of the Academy of Sciences, Count Alexei Razumovsky, but already in January next year, Barkov was fired "for drunkenness and incorrectness." Drunk and later repeatedly overshadowed his official activity, although he regularly brought remorse in this.

Nevertheless, in the year, on behalf of the Academy, Barkov wrote an ode on an all -aid birthday ... Petra Feodorovich, who was recognized as successful, for which he was produced into academic translators. The main works of Barkov on this field are poetic translations of Satir Horace Horace Horace Flax Satira or Conversation, with notes from the Latin language, prevailing by Russian verses ...

And fables Fedra Fedra, Augusta, moralizing fables, composed of the sample of the sample, and prevailing with the Latin by Russian veins, with the Latin. The introduction of the original ..., the publication also attached translations of the two-hearted pseudo-Cato of Dionysius. Both satires and fables were shifted by the right Alexandrian verse, and some fables Fedra Barkov did not translate because of their “obscene content”.

From his other translations - the “drama on music” by the Italian playwright L. Lazaroni “The World of Heroes” Barkov often entrusted the editing of books and translations that entering the academic printing house, including the translation of the natural history of Zhord Buffon, Azopov and other fables, etc. to Barkov prepared the first edition of Antiochus Kantemir and wrote the life of the latter.

The few well -known original poems by Barkov - Oda Peter III, Oda Fighter, his excellency to Count Grigory Orlov ... An all -duty greeting - do not exceed the average level of poetic products of those years. The same can be said about with sufficient confidence attributed to him the literary and plex writings written in defense of Lomonosov. There is no information about the last years of Barkov’s life and his death in St.

Petersburg. It is only known that he was finally dismissed from the Academy. According to one legends, he died in a state of a mental seizure at the time of binge, drowning in a need. According to another legend, Ivan Semenovich, deciding to reduce his accounts with life, writing to himself an epitaph - “lived - sinful, but died - funny! Books of the author:.