Biography
Vladimir Odoyevsky is a writer, musicologist and public figure. The leaving of the notable kind, he was among the most educated people in Russia the DoreForm era. Prince was the last representative of the family line Rurikovich. His ancestor Mikhail Odoyevsky is ranked as saints after painful death in the Horde, adopted in 1246. Biographers often argue about stressing in the surname of the writer. It is believed that it falls on the second syllable.Childhood and youth
Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky was born in Moscow on July 30 (August 11) of 1803. His father was a servicemen, and then adopted the statist post of director of the Moscow branch of the State Assignment Bank. The mother of the future writer was of commoners. Despite the noble origin, the family of Odoevsky did not differ in sufficient.
When the boy was 5 years old, his father died. Mother re-married, and the child was given to the upbringing of relatives on the father's line. Uncle took the boy on the care. In childhood, Vladimir was friends with a cousin, the future Decembrist Alexander Odoevsky.
In 1816, the young man became a student of the Moscow University Noble Pension. Here he was especially interested in philosophy. The favorite author of Odoevsky was Friedrich Shelling. The young man became a regulance of literary circles and visited the collections of the Society of Russian Literature Fans. Vladimir completed learning with a gold medal.
After the release of Odoyevsky plunged into the study of philosophy and literature, acquaintance with anatomy, chemistry, physics and accurate sciences. In 1823, a young man organized a philosophical society with classmates. The creators have seen its goal of creating original Russian philosophy, which will become a foundation for new literature. Members of the Society called themselves "Lisomudras" and promoted philosophy as a science, which is the key to knowing being.
Books
The first works of Odoevsky were published in the years of study in the boarding house. "Divisions" and "Talk about how dangerous to be vain" published in the journal "Bulletin of Europe". Supporting friendship with some Decembrists, the writer participated in the publication of the Almanach "Mnemozin". After the uprising of the Decembrists, the magazine was closed, and, excluding any risks, Odoyevsky destroyed the protocols of the assembly of the editorial board.
Marrying in 1826, the author moved to St. Petersburg and accepted the post in the Cancer Committee of the Ministry of the Interior. Odoevsky participated in the creation of a liberal censorship charter and was part of the compilers of copyright laws. The biography of the Writer was closely related to the cultural activities of the country. Cashing creativity, he interacted with the editors of the "literary newspaper" and the publication "Northern Flowers". The stories of Odoyevsky were published in the magazine "Contemporary".
Opening his own literary salon, the writer took on the visit of Matters of Literature. In his house there were Alexander Griboedov, Mikhail Lermontov, Ivan Turgenev, Nikolai Gogol, Fedor Dostoevsky and others.
In 1833, "motley fairy tales" were published. They led to the delight of Gogol and caused a positive response from readers. A year later, a separate book released the "town in Tabakerque". The works of Odoevsky for children were compared with the fairy tales of Hans Christian Andersen.
The classics are considered to be released from the pen's pen in 1838 "Fairy Tales and Tale for Children of Grandparents Irinea", published in the collection. The fairy tale "Moroz Ivanovich" entered it. The work of the writer during this period was shrouded in mysticism. Interesting fact: the novel "4338: St. Petersburg Letters" contained references to the future. The author managed to predict the benefit of civilization, which became affordable in the 20th century: printers, mobile phones and other gadgets.
Odoyevsky published the story "Cosmorama", "Salamander", "Silfide", "Princess Mimi", the philosophical novel "Russian nights". Inspired by the music plots, he wrote: "Sebastian Bach" and "The last quartet of Beethoven". The writer ratified for the enlightenment, therefore, he was among the publishers of the collection "Rural reading", which published general educational articles.
From 1846 to 1861, Vladimir Odoyevsky served as an assistant director of the Imperial Public Library. He also headed the Rumyantsev museum, speaking the custodian of the cultural heritage, which later entered the library foundation. During this period, Odoevsky was courtly noble. His career was increased from the position of Chamber to the State Counselor and Senator. In the 1860s, the fascination with literature was replaced by great employment in the field of charity, and the writer almost did not write.
Music
Vladimir Odoyevsky since childhood was fond of music. Of particular interest for him was the theoretical part. The researchers were interested in classic and folk tradition. He recorded folk tunes and amounted to their own theories.
In the 1840s, the writer was engaged in research in the field of church musical direction. He recognized the traditions, clarified the possibilities of tools. The author's bibliography replenished the books "On the original Great Russian Song", "Russian and so-called general music", "Music in terms of acoustics". Odoyevsky stood at the origins of musicology in Russia.
Welject ordered the manufacture of the tool invented by him - the enharmonic keystone. It cost 300 silver and presented a hammer piano with the keys separated. Tool today is exhibited in the museum. Glinka in Moscow.
Odoyevsky was confident that music is based on mathematical laws. His opinion was interested in sign composers and musicians of that time. Salon Odoevsky attended Muliya Balakirev, Mikhail Glinka, Anton Rubinstein.
Social activity
Most honor to Odoevsky made a charity and participation in the public life of the country. The writer was an opponent of serfdom. The defendant point of view even configured against the writer of some nobles. Welject supported prison reform and advocated the introduction of a court system adopted in the UK with the participation of jurors.
Merit of Odoyevsky was to participate in the life of orphans. The writer sponsored the organization and improvement of children's shelters. He owns a decision on the foundation of the Maximilian hospital, and later the establishment of the Elizabethan hospital. Safeter supported the poor and everyone who needed help. In 1846, he participated in the creation of a society attending the poor in St. Petersburg.
Returning from St. Petersburg to Moscow in 1862 following the Rumyantsev Museum, Odoyevsky continued to operate in his hometown. The writer helped in the foundation of the conservatory and the creation of Russian music society. He was invited to meetings of the Moscow artistic mug and the meeting of the Society of Russian Literature Fans. The nobleman acted as a lecturer and was always an employed interlocutor.
Personal life
In 1826, Vladimir Odoyevsky married Olga Lanskaya. Their marriage helped to arrange aunt Odoevsky. Being Freillan Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna, Olga convinced those surrounding in attachment to the beloved. Odoevsky, the brother of the Decembrist, was not the best party, and in the family of the bride they were not illustrated.
The wife managed to give a spouse to the tender and maternal love, which the writer was lacking in childhood. According to the testimony of the preserved portrait of the brush of the artist Sokolov, Lanskaya was good, but the typical secular lady did not converge with the Odoevsky temperament.
Over time, care and vanity whales have become a burden for a writer. Nevertheless, the spouse helped keep the literary salon. Soon he divided into two parts: the secular, which was ruled by the wife, and the literary-musical, created by her husband.
Vladimir and Olga grieved due to the fact that they could not become parents. His personal life was difficult. After, Oroevsky did not leave the children, although he loved the kids very much and dreamed of them.
Death
Vladimir Fedorovich Odoyevsky died in 1869. He was 64 years old. The causes of death were quite natural. By the time he did not have a great condition, so it was not necessary to leave a fellow by the spouse.
The death of the writer put an end to the famous kind of nobles. The grave of the writer and musicologist is at the Don Cemetery.
Quotes
"Society forms officials, warriors, lawyers, artisans, but there is no education for the poet ... Instead of the title of the actor, he is a title of perceiver." "Music is more connected with the moral actions of a person, rather than usually think." "Do not believe that a person can understand Music immediately. This is impossible. It is necessary to get used to it first. "" Poetry is a precursor of the state of humanity, when it stops reaching and starts to use the achieved ".Bibliography
- 1833 - "Retort"
- 1833 - "Igosha"
- 1834 - "Princess Mimi"
- 1837 - "Sylphide"
- 1839 - "Princess Zizi"
- 1840 - "Cosmorama"
- 1840 - "4338th year: Petersburg letters"
- 1841 - "Fairy Tales of grandfather Irinea"
- 1844 - "Salamandra"
- 1844 - "Russian nights"
- 1849 - "Stories about God, Man and Nature"
- 1855 - "Two Tree"
- 1868 - "Large and fortuners"