Panaev I. I. (1812-1862), writer, journalist

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PANAEV Ivan Ivanovich (1812, St. Petersburg - 1862.), prose writer, poet, journalist. In 1830 graduated from the Boarding School for Nobles of the Petersburg University. From 1831-44 was in the government service. He works stated to be published from the early 1830s, in 1839 joined the Otechestvennye Zapiski (continued until 1846), engaged Belinsky, and encouraged his moving to St. Petersburg. In the The Clerk's Daughter dilogy (1839) and Alcoholic Mania (1840), in Belinsky's words brilliantly depicted the Petersburg bureaucrat. In the 1840 she wrote a series of vivid physiological essays: The Petersburg Feuilletonist (1841), Onager (1841), Litarature Aphid (1843), Literature Hare (1844) and others. In the The Relatives narrative (1847), which in certain respects is considered Turgenev's Rudin forerunner, he depicted a superfluous man character type, and a circle of philosophically idealistic spirited young people. In 1846 together with Nekrasov acquired the Sovremennik (made a major contribution) effectively becoming its co-editor (from 1848 official editor). In the Lions in the Province (1852), essay series The University Prigs (1856), The Grandson of a Russian Millionair narrative (1858) expose Panaev's characteristic prose techniques: publicistic representation of reality, description of morals, harsh satiric portrayal of characters. Some of his works Panaev published under the pseudonym Novy Poet (New Poet), including Sketches of the Petersburg Life (parts1 and 2, St. Petersburg, 1860), poetic parodies (separate edition — 1855), making evident the continuity between New Poet and Kozma Prutkov (a fictional author invented by Alexey Konstantinovich Tolstoy and three Zhemchuzhnikov brothers; a collective pen name the authors used to publish aphorisms, fables, epigrams, satiric, humorous and nonsense verses). Literary Memoirs (published in 1861) provide a vivid and valuable insight into the Moscow and St. Petersburg literary and theatre life of the 1830-50s. Panaev lived on Gryaznaya Street (now Marata Street) in E. I. Dimmetr's House (has not survived); in A. F. Lopatin's house (68 Nevsky Prospect), in the house of Princess Urusova (19 Fontanka River Embankment), in 1857–62 - in the house of A. A. Kraevsky, where Nekrasov lived as well; it also accommodated the Sovremennik's editorial office and hosted Panaev's Saturday soirees (36/2 Liteiny Avenue; Panaev's flat is part of Nekrasov's memorial museum-flat). Buried at Farforovskoe cemetery, in the 1930s his remains were reburied at Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Ямпольский И. Г. Литературная деятельность И. И. Панаева; Из истории литературной борьбы начала 1840-х годов: (Петербургский фельетонист и Литературная тля И. И. Панаева) // Поэты и прозаики: Ст. о рус. писателях XIX - нач. XX в. Л., 1986. С. 23-109; Туниманов В. А. Повести и очерки И. Панаева // Панаев И. И. Избр. проза. М., 1988. С. 3-20.

М. V. Otradin. Belinsky Vissarion Grigorievich
Dimmert Egor Ivanovich
Kraevsky Andrey Alexandrovich
Lopatin Alexey Frolovich
Nekrasov Nikolay Alexeevich
Panaev Ivan Ivanovich
Turgenev Ivan Sergeevich
Urusova Ekaterina Nikolaevna
Fontanka River Embankment/Saint Petersburg, city, house 19
Liteiny Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 36/2
Marata St./Saint Petersburg, city
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 68
Ямпольский И. Г. Литературная деятельность И. И. Панаева; Из истории литературной борьбы начала 1840-х годов: ("Петербургский фельетонист" и "Литературная тля" И. И. Панаева) // Поэты и прозаики: Ст. о рус. писателях XIX - нач. XX в. Л., 1986
Туниманов В. А. Повести и очерки И. Панаева // Панаев И. И. Избр. проза. М., 1988 Otechestvennye Zapiski (Notes of the Fatherland), journal
Sovremennik (Contemporary), journal
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis
1846