Alexei Nikolaevich Veselovsky was a State Counselor, professor at Moscow University, an honorary academician, a historian of literature, and a culturologist. He was a specialist in Western European literature; Veselovsky's works on Moliere, Byronism, and European theatre were widely popular.
Background
Alexey Veselovsky was born July 9, 1843 in Moscow in the family of Augusta Fedorovna Lisitskaya and military teacher Nikolai Alekseevich Veselovsky. His brother, Alexander Veselovsky, was a Russian literary historian, philologist, professor at Saint Petersburg University.
Education
Alexey Veselovsky graduated from the Alexandrinsky orphan cadet corps in 1860, was sent as lieutenant to the Ryazan infantry regiment.
After spending a short time in military service, in 1860 he entered the historical and philological faculty of Moscow University, which he graduated in 1863. At the end of the course until 1866 he was abroad, where he studied, in addition to the history of literature, the history of theater and music.
For the monograph "Studies on Moliere. Tartuffe. The history of type and play" (1879), he received a doctorate in the history of universal literature.
After graduation, Alexei Veselovsky was abroad until 1866, where he studied the history of literature and the history of theater and music. In 1866, his first article, "Music by the Slavs", was published. After returning to Russia, he was a teacher and engaged in urgent work in various newspapers. In 1870, his book "The Ancient Theater in Europe" was published. In 1876-1883, Alexei Veselovsky taught at the Moscow Higher Women's Courses.
In 1879, Veselovsky was awarded the degree of Doctor of History of General Literature for the monograph "Studies on Moliere. Tartuffe". Since 1881, he was a professor at Moscow University and the Lazarevsky Institute of Oriental Languages, and since 1903 he taught at the Higher Women's Courses. Together with his wife, Alexandra Adolfovna, he translated three volumes of Curtius's Greek History (1880), the third volume of Momsen's Roman History.
In 1901-1904 Veselovsky was chairman of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature; since 1906 - а Honorary Academician in the Department of Fine Literature of the Russian Language and Literature Department of the Academy of Sciences. In the last years of his life, Veselovsky taught at the Moscow City People's University named after A. L. Shanyavsky and at the theater school at the Maly Theater.
Alexei Veselovsky was a chairman of the Society of Lovers of Russian Literature.
Connections
Alexei Nikolaevich Veselovsky was born in the family of Augusta Fedorovna Lisitskaya and military teacher Nikolai Alekseevich Veselovsky. He was the brother of a literary critic and academician Alexander Veselovsky. He married Alexandra Adolfovna Veselovskaya.