Andrey Boehm

Background

Andrey Boehm was born ca. 1758.

Career

In 1832, because of placing the Alexander Column on Palace Square in Saint Petersburg, Andrey Boehm published the composition "Die Alexanders-Saule" (The Alexander Column; Saint Petersburg), written in rhymed verse in German and translated into blank verse in Russian by the author. In 1834 published an ode "To the Hero of our time, Count Paskevich Erivansky. The offering of a 76-year-old blind man" and the poem "A blind man to philanthropists, or Eight-year misfortune from blindness" (Saint Petersburg), full of regrets about the loss of joys of the former "sighted" life.

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989