Alexander Alexandrovich Bestuzhev Biography

Born: on October 23, he was published under the pseudonym "Marlinsky". The son of Alexander Fedoseevich Bestuzhev, who published together with I. Pnin in the St. Petersburg Journal and compiled "The experience of military education relatively noble youth." It was brought up in the mountain corps, then he was the adjutant of the primary control routes of the gene.

Betancer and the Duke of Württemberg and, finally, with the rank of headquarters captain passed to the Life Guards the Dragoon Regiment. For participation in the conspiracy of the Decembrists, he was exiled to Yakutsk, and from there to the Caucasus was transferred to the Caucasus by a soldier. Died in a skirmish with the highlanders, in the forest, on Cape Adler; His body was not found.

In the literary field he performed in the year with poems and small stories printed in the “Son of the Fatherland” and “Educational Competition”, and in the year he was elected to the St. Petersburg Society of Lovers of Russian Literature. In m, his “trip to Revel” was printed with a separate book, and in - he, along with K. Ryleyev, published the Almanac “Polar Star”. December events G.

Already printed sheets of the Polar Star for a year with his article were destroyed. He himself was first taken to the Shlisselburg fortress, and then exiled to Yakutsk.

Here he zealously studied foreign languages, and also got acquainted with the edge, morals and customs of local residents; This gave the content to several ethnographic articles about Siberia. Here he began the story in verses under the title “Andrei, Prince Pereyaslavsky”, the first chapter of which, without the name and consent of the author, was printed in St.

Petersburg next year Bestuzhev was transferred to the Caucasus with ordinary surrender. At first, upon arrival, he constantly participated in various military expeditions and skirmishes with the highlanders, and to literature got the opportunity to return only in the year. He worked and lived in the city of Derbent, in Dagestan. From a year, first without a name, and then-under the pseudonym Marlinsky in magazines more and more often his novels and stories “Test”, “Clouds”, “Lieutenant Belozor”, “The terrible fortune-telling”, “Ammalat-Bek”, “Frigate Nadezhda”, etc.

Soon it took the second edition of these stories with the name of A. Marlinsky; Then new volumes came out annually; the third edition was in 12 parts in the year; In m - the fourth. The main novels of Marlinsky were reprinted in the x. Detailed biography.