Background
Alexander Abramovich Volkov was born in 1788. He was the son of the vice president of the Medical College, writer Avraam Stepanovich Volkov.
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Alexander Abramovich Volkov
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Alexander Abramovich was an officer. After retiring, he served in the Moscow Criminal Court. In 1804 he published a collection of youth poems The Passion of My Heart. In 1808 he participated in the publication Aglaya, published by P.I. Shalikov. The poems published here (Who is right?, Tsarist Service, etc.). In the future, Alexander Abramovich resolutely protests against his reckoning as "sentimental writers."
The main works of Volkov - the epic poem "Liberated Moscow" (1820, 1825) - written in a heavy archaic language, the poem was not successful. After a laudatory verse by P. I. Shalikon To the writer of the poem Liberated Moscow (1820), it was sharply criticized by A.F. Voeikov and A.I. Pisarev.
Since 1823 Alexander Abramovich was a member of the University of Moscow Lena. From 1819 to 1828 it was published in periodicals of the Society. He had wide and varied literary acquaintances: I.M. Dolgorukov, Shalikov, N.D. Ivanchin, Pisarev, D.I. Khvostov (to whom he dedicated the poem), N.A. Polevoy, etc.
In 1826, Alexander Abramovich published the guidebook Almanac for 1826 for visitors to Moscow and for the residents of the Moscow capital themselves, where he described Moscow memorial sites.
Alexander Abramovich owned the comedy written in 1829, The Vanity, or Whatever one really wants, one believes, published in 1838. Perhaps he owned a number of works of the 1830s signed by A. Volkov.
Views
Considering himself to be a representative of classicism, Alexander Abramovich reckoned romanticism to be the "sinful direction of literature."
