Background
Alexander Efimovich Batalin was born in 1787 in Kaluga Oblast, Russian Federation.
Alexander Efimovich Batalin was born in 1787 in Kaluga Oblast, Russian Federation.
In 1802 Alexander Efimovich entered the Mosalsk District Treasury as a copyist. For more than 30 years he served as a minor official in the Kaluga province, holding the positions of a clerk, bailiff, secretary of the Mosalsky Magistrate, secretary of the Kaluga province government. He rose to the rank of college assessor (1836).
Alexander Efimovich wrote, "Thinking at the End of the Year." The few, but diverse in genre (ode, romance, epitaphs, ballads) poems, as a rule, are imitations of G.R. Derzhavin, A.F. Merzlyakov, V.A. Zhukovsky. He also owned an extensive poetic treatise "The Epistle to Urania against the Epistle to Urania Voltaire" - the defense of religious postulates violated by the French philosopher.
Alexander Efimovich had seven children. One of them, Fyodor Batalin was the editor of the "Agricultural newspaper".