Ivan Nikitin (poet), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Ivan Nikitin (poet)

Russian writer

Date of Birth: 21-Sep-1824

Place of Birth: Voronezh, Azov Governorate, Russia

Date of Death: 16-Oct-1861

Profession: writer, poet, trade

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ivan Nikitin (poet)

  • Ivan Savvich Nikitin (Russian: ???´? ??´???? ????´???) (3 October 1824 [O.S.
  • 21 September], Voronezh – 28 October 1861 [O.S.
  • 16 October], Voronezh) was a Russian poet. Born in Voronezh into a merchant family, Nikitin was educated in a seminary until 1843.
  • His father's violence and alcoholism brought the family to ruin and forced young Ivan to provide for the household by becoming an innkeeper.
  • After his first publications, he joined a circle of local intelligentsia that included his future biographer (and the editor of his collected works) Mikhail De-Lupé.
  • He taught himself French and German and read widely in world literature, and in 1859 he opened a bookstore and library that became an important center of literary and social life in Voronezh. His first poems appeared in 1849 and his first collection in 1856; his 1858 poem "Kulak" was his most successful with both critics and the public.
  • A second collection came out in 1859, and a prose "Seminarist's Diary" was published in 1861.
  • Some of his poems became the basis for popular songs, set to music by such composers as Vasily Kalinnikov, Eduard Nápravník, and Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov.
  • D.
  • S.
  • Mirsky wrote that his "principal claim to attention" was in "his realistic poems of the life of the poor": He was inclined sometimes to idealize and sentimentalize them, but his best things are free from this sin.
  • There is an almost epic calm in the long, uneventful, and powerful Night Rest of the Drivers, and an unsweetened realism in such poems of tragic misery as The Tailor.
  • In Kulák, his opus magnum, Nikitin introduced into poetry the methods of realistic prose.
  • He succeeds in evoking pity and terror by the simple account of sordid and trivial misery.
  • But he was not strong enough to create a really new art or a really new attitude to poetry. Nikita Khrushchev was extremely fond of Nikitin's verse.

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