No information is preserved about Verderevsky’s biography, but there was a note Revel under his poem of 1839; another poem is entitled On the Saint’s Day of My Sister V.N. Gotovitskaya. Since the release of the Dictionary of The Society of Russian Literature Lovers’ members (1911), Alexander Verderevsky was mistakenly identified with its writer Apollon Danilovich Verderevsky, who, also mistakenly, was called Alexander Dmitrievich.
A manuscript of Poem (Moscow, 1838), the first and only collection of poems of Alexander Verderevsky, came into censorship with the signature from the merchant A. Verderevsky. In this book, the abundance of epithets and the uniform verse structure creates the impression of a flow of popular, conditionally literary themes and images, including romantic ones (I Fell Out of Love!, Premonition, Inconsolable Sorrow).
Alexander Verderevsky wrote poems in stylized folk forms, which are characterized by interspersed with living intonations (Russian Song). The collection was noticed by P.A. Pletnev (Sovremennik, 1838, volume 12), V.G. Belinsky (1839, February), and other reviewers, who, noting Verderevsky’s poetic language, unanimously reproached him for copying the style of other writers, including P.A. Pletnev and A.S. Pushkin. Belinsky and the reviewer of Syn Otechestva expressed certain hopes for the future success of the emerging author. For some time, Alexander Verderevsky was published in magazines, such as Biblioteka Dlya Chteniya (1839, volumes 35-36; 1843, volume 57), Syn Otechestva (1839, No. 7), Sovremennik (1839, volume 15), but soon gave up on writing.
