Vasily Trediakovsky, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vasily Trediakovsky

Russian poet, translator, philologist

Date of Birth: 22-Feb-1703

Place of Birth: Astrakhan, Astrakhan Oblast, Russia

Date of Death: 06-Aug-1769

Profession: writer, poet, translator, lexicographer

Zodiac Sign: Pisces


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About Vasily Trediakovsky

  • Vasily Kirillovich Trediakovsky (Russian: ????´??? ????´?????? ????????´?????; 5 March [O.S.
  • 22 February] 1703 in Astrakhan – 17 August [O.S.
  • 6 August] 1769 in Saint Petersburg) was a Russian poet, essayist and playwright who helped lay the foundations of classical Russian literature.Trediakovsky was a Russian literary theoretician and poet whose writings contributed to the classical foundations of Russian literature.
  • The son of a poor priest, Trediakovsky became the first Russian commoner to receive a humanistic education abroad, at the Sorbonne in Paris (1727–30) where he studied philosophy, linguistics and mathematics.
  • Soon after his return to Russia he became acting secretary of the Academy of Sciences and de facto court poet. In 1735 Trediakovsky published ????? ? ??????? ?????? ? ???????? ?????????? ?????? ("A new and brief way for composing of Russian verses"), a highly theoretical work for which he is best remembered.
  • It discussed for the first time in Russian literature such poetic genres as the sonnet, the rondeau, the madrigal, and the ode.
  • In 1748 appeared his ???????? ?? ?????????? ("A Conversation on Orthography"), the first study of the phonetic structure of the Russian language.
  • He continued his advocacy of poetic reform in ? ???????, ??????? ? ????? ?????????? ?????? (1752; "On Ancient, Middle, and New Russian Poetry"). Trediakovsky was also a prolific translator of classical authors, medieval philosophers, and French literature.
  • His translations frequently aroused the ire of the censors, and he fell into disfavour with his Academy superiors and conservative court circles.
  • In 1759 he was dismissed from the Academy.
  • His last major work was a translation of François Fénelon's Les aventures de Telemaque (1766; Tilemakhida), which he rendered in Russian hexameters.
  • His works marked the transition from syllabic versification to metric verse, more suited to the sound of the Russian tongue. In 1740, Trediakovsky received a physical beating at the hand of the imperial minister Artemy Volynsky.
  • Volynsky was arrested on charges of conspiracy and misconduct, but Trediakovsky became, "a subject of constant mockery", according to Elif Batuman: "His very propensity for receiving physical abuse became a popular comic premise."

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