Muravyev M.N. (1757-1807), poet

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MURAVYEV Mikhail Nikitich (1757-1807, St. Petersburg), writer, statesman, Privy Councilor (1800), Fellow of the Russian Academy (1804). Father of two Decembrists, N.M. Muravyev and A.M. Muravyev. In 1768-70, he studied at the gymnasium attached to Moscow University, and then at Moscow University, never receiving a degree. His residence in St. Petersburg was not consistent, though he lived there from 1772, the same year he entered the Izmaylovsky Life Guards Regiment as a private. From 1785, Muravyev educated and instructed Grand Prince Alexander Pavlovich (Emperor-to-be Alexander I) and Grand Prince Konstantin Pavlovich. In 1800, he was elected a senator, and appointed Deputy Minister of Public Education three years later. The Muravyev's literary heritage is vast and diverse, comprising many genres, and had a considerable impact upon the evolution of Russian sentimentalism and romanticism; however, it was mostly beyond the mass reader's reach. Muravyev occupied a building belonging to the Ministry of Public Education at Sadovaya Street (building not preserved; today part of Apraksin Dvor). Buried at Lazarevskoe Cemetery at the Alexander Nevsky Lavra.

References: Топоров В. Н. Из истории русской литературы. Т. 2: Русская литература второй половины XVIII века: Исслед., материалы, публикации. М. Н. Муравьев: Введение в творч. наследие. М., 2001.

V. A. Kuznetsov, D.N. Cherdakov. Alexander I, Emperor
Konstantin Pavlovich, Grand Prince
Muravyev Alexander Nikolaevich
Muravyev Mikhail Nikitich
Muravyev Nikita Mikhailovich
Sadovaya St./Saint Petersburg, city
Кулакова Л. И. М. Н. Муравьев // Учен. зап. ЛГУ, 1939
Топоров В. Н. Из истории русской литературы. Т. 2: Русская литература второй половины XVIII века: Исслед., материалы, публ. М. Н. Муравьев: Введение в творч. наследие. М., 2001 Izmaylovsky Life Guards Regiment
Lazarevskaya Burial Vault