Grigoryev A.A. (1822-1864), critic, poet

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GRIGORYEV Apollon Alexandrovich (1822-1864, St. Petersburg), poet, prose writer, literary and theatre critic, collegiate assessor (1857). A graduate of the Faculty of Law of Moscow University, he lived in St. Petersburg in 1844-47 and from October 1858 (with interruptions in May 1861 - June 1862). Over the years, Grigoryev contributed to various Petersburg journals and edited journals Repertuar i Panteon, Dramatichesky Sbornik, Yakor with its comic supplement Osa. A leading critic for journals Russkoe slovo (1859), Vremya (1861-63), Epokha (1864), he provided paradigms of a profound and original historic and literary analyses employing his principles of organic criticism. Grigoryev's only poetry collection published in his lifetime came out in St. Petersburg in 1846. His romantic lyrics were influenced by the folklore and city romantic tradition. Grigoryev was not particularly fond of cold and passionless St. Petersburg conveying the feeling in some of his poems (Farewell to Petersburg, 1846; and others). Being financially unreliable, he twice in 1861 and 1864 ended up in a debt prison located in the house of merchant woman Tarasova (the building has not survived, currently the section of house 3/5 on Krasnoarmeyskaya Street). From autumn 1845, Grigoryev resided in V. S. Mezhevich's flat on Nikolskaya Street (now 6 Glinka Street); in 1859 - in the house of Loginov at Nevsky Prospect (has not survived; currently the section of house 61); in 1860, he lived in the house of Lopatin at Nevsky Prospect (has not survived, today Pushkinskaya Street runs across the spot); in 1862, in the house of Frideriks at 23 Voznesensky Avenue; in 1863-64 - in the house of Sobolevskaya at 49 Voznesensky Avenue. He was buried at Mitrofanyevskoe Cemetery, in the early 1930s his remains were carried over to Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Глебов В. Д. Аполлон Григорьев: Концепция ист.-лит. процесса 1830-1860 гг. М., 1996; Егоров Б. Ф. Аполлон Григорьев. М., 2000.

D. N. Cherdakov. Frideriks
Grigoryev Apollon Alexandrovich
Loginov
Lopatin Alexey Frolovich
Mezhevich Vasily Stepanovich
Sobolevskaya
Tarasova
1st Krasnoarmeiskaya St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 3/5
Glinka St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 6
Nevsky prospect/Saint Petersburg, city, house 61
Voznesensky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 23
Voznesensky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 49
Глебов В. Д. Аполлон Григорьев: Концепция ист.-лит. процесса 1830-1860 гг. М., 1996
Егоров Б. Ф. Аполлон Григорьев. М., 2000 Russkoe slovo (The Russian Word), journal, 1859-1866
Vremya (The Time), journal
Epokha (The Epoch), journal
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis