Annensky I.F. (1855-1909), poet and teacher

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ANNENSKY Innokenty Fedorovich (1856-1909, St. Petersburg), poet, playwright, translator, critic, and teacher promoted to Actual Civil Counsellor in 1896. He graduated from the department of history and philosophy of Petersburg University with a major in literature in 1879. He served in the Ministry of Public Education until his dying day. He was the director of the Eighth Petersburg Gymnasium at 8 Ninth Line of Vasilievsky Island in 1893-96 and director of Nicholas Gymnasium at 12 Naberezhnaya Street, Tsarskoe Selo, where he also lived from 1896 to 1905. Among his students were N. S. Gumilev, D. I. Kokovtsev, and N. N. Punin. He started to appear in print with his reviews, critical essays, and educational articles from the early 1880s. He published his first collected verses, Quiet Songs, under the name of Nic. T-o in 1904 and the second collected verses, Cypress Casket, published after his death in 1910. He was the first to translate Euripides’ tragedies into Russian completely in verse. Ancient Greek motifs affected Annensky’s own dramas including Famira-kifared, Laodamia, etc. He wrote collected critical essays Book of Reflections in 1906 and a Second Book of Reflections in 1909. He was one of the founders of Apollon journal in 1909 and a member of the Society of Literature Enthusiasts founded by the magazine editors. Annensky played a key role in Russian literature of the 1910s, his works having a major impact on Gumilev, A. A. Akhmatova, O. E. Mandelstam, B. L. Pasternak, G. V. Adamovich, et al. He last lived at 11 Zakharzhevskaya Street in Tsarskoe Selo, the house is not preserved. He died of a heart failure on the stairs of the Tsarskoe Selo Station (today, Vitebsky Railway Station). Buried at Kazanskoe Cemetery, Tsarskoe Selo.

References: Лавров А. В., Тименчик Р. Д. Иннокентий Анненский в неизданных воспоминаниях // Памятники культуры: Новые открытия: Ежегодник, 1981. Л., 1983. С. 61-146; Федоров А. В. Иннокентий Анненский: Личность и творчество. Л., 1984; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 221-245.

Т. М. Dvinyatina. Adamovich Georgy Viktorovich
Akhmatova Anna Andreevna
Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich
Euripides
Gumilev Nikolay Stepanovich
Kokovtsev D.I.
Mandelstam Osip Emilievich
Pasternak Boris Leonidovich
Punin Nikolay Nikolaevich
9th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Naberezhnaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 12
Zakharzhevskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 11
Тименчик Р. Д., Лавров А. В. Иннокентий Анненский в неизданных воспоминаниях // Памятники культуры: Новые открытия: Ежегодник, 1981. Л., 1983
Федоров А. В. Иннокентий Анненский: Личность и творчество. Л., 1984 Ministry of Public Education
Apollon (Apollo), journal
Vitebsky Railway Station