Maykov A.N. (1821-1897), poet

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MAYKOV Apollon Nikolaevich (1821 - 1897, St. Petersburg), poet, prose writer, corresponding member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1853), privy counsellor (1888). Lived in St. Petersburg from 1833. In the 1830-40s the house of the Maykovs (51 Bolshaya Sadovaya Street) was famous for its literary and art salons (see Salon of Maykov). Graduated from the Faculty of Law of Petersburg University (1841). From 1844 - the bibliographer of Rumyantsev's Museum, in 1852 - was appointed a censor, from 1875 to the end of his life remained the Chairman of Committee for Foreign Censorship. The collections of poems from the 1840s (Poems, Essays of Rome) won him fame as a poet whose talent was apparent, first of all, in the anthology. In the middle of the 1840s drifted into the circle of V.G. Belinsky, a regular contributor to journals Otechestvennye zapiski and Sovremennik. The Petersburg poem Mashenka (published in Petersburg Collection), 1846), a story of a seduced and derelict daughter of an official, living on Peski, dates back to this period. In the late 19th century Maykov was reckoned as a patriarch of Russian poetry and a successor in harmony with the poetry of A.S.Pushkin. In 1888 the celebration in honour of the fiftieth anniversary of Maykov's creative life became a prominent event in St. Petersburg. Buried at Novodevichye Cemetery.

References: Степанов Н. Л. Ап. Майков // История русской литературы: В 10 т. М.; Л., 1956. Т. 8, ч. 2. С. 284-301.

A. B. Muratov. Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich
Maykov Apollon Nikolaevich
Pushkin Alexander Sergeevich
the Maykovs
Sadovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 51
Степанов Н. Л. Ап. Майков // История русской литературы: В 10 т. М.; Л., 1956 Russian Academy of Sciences
Maykov Literary and Artistic Salon
Rumyantsev Museum
Otechestvennye Zapiski (Notes of the Fatherland), journal
Sovremennik (Contemporary), journal
Novodevichye Cemetery
Novodevichye Cemetery