Everything about Ippolit Bogdanovich totally explained
Ippolit Fyodorovich Bogdanovich (
December 23,
1743,
Perevolochna –
January 18,
1803,
Kursk) was a
Russian
classicist author of
light poetry, best known for his long poem
Dushenka (1778).
Biography
Coming from a noble Ukrainian family, Bogdanovich studied in the
Moscow University until
1761. His literary career started two years later with editing a literary journal. In
1766, he joined the Russian embassy in
Dresden as a secretary. Three years later, he was back in
Saint Petersburg, where he edited the only regular official newspaper, the
Vedomosti, between
1775 and
1782. In 1788, Bogdanovich was appointed Director of State Archives, a post which he treated as a
sinecure, translating
Voltaire,
Diderot, and
Rousseau at loose hours.
It was in
1778 that Bogdanovich brought out his only work of lasting fame,
Dushenka. This long poem, resembling a
mock epic, was a reworking of
La Fontaine's
Psyche, a subject originating from
Apuleius but ingeniously stylized by Bogdanovich as a Russian folk tale. The definitive edition followed in
1783 and instantly became popular for its mildly scurrilous passages. La Fontaine's conventional heroine was presented by Bogdanovich as "a living, modern girl from a gentry family of the middling sort". Following the publication, Bogdanovich was recognized as the foremost Russian practitioner of
light poetry and gained admission into the literary circle of
Princess Dashkova, while
Catherine II of Russia engaged him to write several comedies for her
Hermitage Theatre.
Assessment
By
1841, Bogdanovich's
chef d'oeuvre went though 15 editions. Today, it's remembered primarily for
Fyodor Tolstoy's Neoclassical illustrations and citations in
Pushkin's works such as
Eugene Onegin. Indeed,
Dushenka was a major influence on young
Pushkin, who avidly read the poem during his
Lyceum years but later discarded Bogdanovich's verse as immature.
Nabokov summed up contemporary opinion about
Dushenka in the following dictum: "The airiness of its tetrametric passages and its glancing mother-of-pearl wit are foregleams of young Pushkin's art; it's a significant stage in the development of Russian poetry; its naive colloquial melodies also influenced Pushkin's direct predecessors,
Karamzin,
Batyushkov, and
Zhukovski.
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