BIOGRAPHY

• Arlincourt, Charles Victor, Vicomte de (1789-1856)
  French novelist.
  
  
• Balzac, Honore de (1799-1850).
  French novelist who was very popular in Russia. Wrote series of novels (La Comedie humaine) including Eugenie Grandet (1833), Le Pere Goriot (1834), La Cousine Bette (1847).
  
  
• Bulgarin, Faddei Venediktovich (1789-1859)
  Journalist, novelist and publisher. Born in Poland. Saw military service on both sides during Napoleonic wars. Member of the so-called triumvirate (Bulgarin, Grech & Senkovskii). Joined Grech as editor of Syn otechestva (1825-1837); also began the newspaper Severnaia pchela in 1825.
  
  
• Chateaubriand, Francois Rene, Vicomte de (1768-1848)
  French author and politician. Major works: Atala (1801), Le Genie du christianisme (1802), Rene (1805).
  
  
• Dumas, Alexandre (pere) (1803-1870)
  Popular French novelist, author of Les trois mousquetaires (1844).
  
  
• Dumas, Alexandre (fils) (1824-1895)
  Popular French novelist; first published in 1847. Author of La dame aux camelias (1848).
  
  
• Grech, Nikolai Ivanovich (1787-1867)
  Journalist, publisher and grammarian. Czech origin. Member of the so-called triumvirate (Bulgarin, Grech & Senkovskii). Published Syn otechestva (1812-1837); collaborated with Bulgarin on Severnaia pchela from 1831.
  
  
• Karamzin, Nikolai Mikhailovich (1766-1826)
  Leading Russian writer (a major work was the sentimental tale Bednaia Lisa published in 1792). Later became court historiographer and published the landmark study Istoriia russkogo gosudarstva (1818-1828). See also image (Bednaia Lisa).
  
  
• Kotzebue, August von (1761-1819)
  Prolific German novelist and playwright. Ennobled while in government service in Estonia. Known Russian agent in Germany; murdered by a university student in Mannheim.
  
  
• Novikov, Nikolai Ivanovich (1744-1818)
• Leading 18th century publicist. Began publication in 1769 of the Drone (satirical journal). Took over Moscow Univ. Press in 1779; organized bookselling operations in 16 cities. Imprisoned in 1790s.
  
  
• Radcliffe, Ann (1764-1823)
  English Gothic novelist. Major works: The Romance of the Forest (1791), The Mysteries of Udolpho (1794). Romanticized views of nature, prolonged scenes of suspense. Admired by Byron, Coleridge and Scott.
  
  
• Sand, George (1804-1876)
  French romantic writer. Preached freedom of love. Major novels: Indiana (1832), Jacques (1834), Simon (1836), Horace (1842).
  
  
• Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)
  Scott's novels were popular throughout Europe. In Russia they were often read in Russian translations from French editions. Major novels included: Waverley (1814), Rob Roy (1817), Ivanhoe (1819), Kenilworth (1821). Also famous for verse: The Lay of the Last Minstrel (1805), Marmion (1808).
  
  
• Sharngorst, Vasilli L'vovich
  Became head of the Glavnoe inzhenernoe uchilishche (Main Engineering School) in 1835
  
  
• Shevyrev, Stepan Petrovich (1806-1864)
  Moscow Univ. professor of Russian literature. Slavophile. Edited Mosvitianin with M. P. Pogodin. "critic of great merit" (Mirsky, p. 169).
  
  
• Smirdin, Aleksandr Filippovich (1795-1857)
  Leading publisher of the Pushkin era. Famed for his generosity. Major player in the commercialization of literature. See also image file.
  
  
• Sue, Eugene (1804-1857)
  French author of sensational novels. Major works: Artur (1838), Mathilde (1841), Paula Monti (1842), Juif errant (1844-45). Earned reputation as the "James Fenimore Cooper of French literature."
  
  
• Thalberg, Sigismond (1812-1871):
  Austrian composer and virtuoso pianist who became very popular in Russia after his successful concert tour in 1839.
  [Turgenev, Ivan: Rudin, R. Freeborn, trans. (Harmondsworth, 1975), ??].