Alexander Nikolaevich Ammosov was a Russian poet. Almost all his life he was combining literary activity with military service.
Background
Alexander Nikolaevich Ammosov was born on September 21, 1823 in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. He was from the nobility of the Petersburg province. His father, Major General N.A. Ammosov (1787-1868), was the inventor of the "Ammosov Stoves", he also was a fiction writer.
Education
Alexander Nikolaevich studied at the Saint Petersburg University, from which he graduated in 1845.
Career
After graduating from Saint Petersburg University (1845), Alexander Nikolaevich entered the Lublin Regiment of Chasseurs as a junker. The same year in a battle with the Highlanders, he was wounded in the head.
Alexander Nikolaevich participated in a campaign against Hungary in 1849, and in 1853-1855 in the Crimean War (on the Danube, in Sevastopol). Since 1857 he was a adjutant to the duty general of the General Staff. Alexander Nikolaevich had the Gold Sword for Bravery.
In January 1863 he transferred to the civil service, since August 1863 was the administrator of the Volyn Chamber of State Property (state counselor). Died of the "after-effects of wounds".
In the 50s he published several poems in the newspaper "Russky Invalid" ("Russian Disabled"), including "Elegy" (1858), which became a folk song. Collaborated in "Iskra" ("Spark") (1861-1862), "Severnaya Pchela" ("Northern Bee"), he was published in "Razvlechenie" ("Entertainment") (1861-1866). The originality of Ammosov’s lyrics, in many ways traditional, societyverse-like, is rendered by prosaisms and colloquial intonations. The most successful story poems are those about the humiliated and underprivileged: "Orphans" (1861), "Palashka" (1860).