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Alexander Gavrilovich Volkov was born in 1770.
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Alexander Gavrilovich Volkov
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From 1781 Alexander Gavrilovich was registered in military service, in 1797 he was dismissed. From 1798 to 1817 he served in the State Military College (from 1802 - the Ministry of War). Since March 1812, while remaining in the service of the Ministry of War, at the same time was under the Saint Petersburg general-governor S.K. Vyazmitinov.
Since 1813, assistant to the ruler; since 1817, acting director of the general office of the same ministry. After the liquidation of the ministry, he was attached to the Ministry of the Interior. In 1821-1826 he served in the Theater Directorate (a member of the repertoire).
According to P.N. Berkov, Alexander Gavrilovich owned a number of verses in the journal New Monthly Works (1794-1795). In the 1810-20s he translated a significant number of plays and opera librettos from French for the capital's stage, including the comedy by J. F. Roger and O. Cruz, Repayment, Helpful Neighbors (1816). Volkov’s translation of Scientists’ Women by Moliere was highly appreciated by P.A. Korsakov, who noted that the translator left the play "contrary to the custom in previous French morals." The lyrical tragedy of V. Zh. Zhui Vestalka (1815) and especially D. Steibelt’s opera Romeo and Julia based on W. Shakespeare (1817) were successful.
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1833 (aged 63) -
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Russian Empire
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1781 - 1797
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1798 - 1817
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1817
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1821 - 1826