Ivan Pnin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
TweetIvan Pnin
Russian poet
Date of Birth: 01-Jan-1773
Place of Birth: Moscow, Russia
Date of Death: 17-Sep-1805
Profession: poet
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn 
About Ivan Pnin
- Ivan Petrovich Pnin (Russian: ???? ???????? ????; 1773–1805) was a Russian poet and political writer.
- In accordance with Russian Illegitimacy custom, Pnin's surname was the abbreviation of that of his father, Prince Nicholas Repnin. Born out of wedlock, he famously deplored the status of illegitimate children in his 1802 petition to Alexander I of Russia (Pnin's father was rumored to have also illegitimately fathered Poland's Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.) Pnin's liberal Essay on the Enlightenment in Russia (1804) attacked serfdom and therefore was banned in the Russian Empire. The titles of Pnin's best-known poems, Man (1804) and God (1805), mirror Derzhavin's on purpose, as he sought to refute the great poet's idealism by taking up the Deist stance of Radishchev, Volney, and d'Holbach.
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