Viktor Askochensky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Viktor Askochensky

Russian poet (1820-1879)

Date of Birth: 01-Oct-1813

Place of Birth: Voronezh, Azov Governorate, Russia

Date of Death: 18-May-1879

Profession: poet, historian, journalist

Zodiac Sign: Libra


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About Viktor Askochensky

  • Viktor Ipatyevich Askochensky (Russian: ?????? ????????? ???????????, 13 October 1813—30 May 1879) was a Russian writer, journalist and historian. Born in Voronezh into a clergyman's family and a Kiev Theological Academy's alumnus, Askochensky the historian is best remembered for his work on the history of the Orthodoxy in Ukraine.
  • Much discussed was his novel The Asmodeus of Our Times (??????? ?????? ???????, 1858), a passionate paean to Orthodoxy.
  • In 1858 Askochensky launched the magazine Domashnyaya Beseda (Home Soliloqy) which he edited for twenty years until 1877 when he became hospitalized for mental illness.
  • He spent the rest of his days in the Peter and Paul Hospital in Saint Petersburg, where he died on 30 May 1879.
  • He is interred in the Coastal Monastery of Saint Sergius.Askochensky's writings divided critical opinion.
  • His detractors included Alexander Hertzen, Apollon Grigoryev and Fyodor Dostoyevsky, among his supporters were Nikolai Leskov, Lev Tolstoy and Sergei Nilus.

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