Background
Boris Karlovich Blank was born in 1769 in Moscow City, Russian Federation.
Boris Karlovich Blank was born in 1769 in Moscow City, Russian Federation.
The first works of Boris Karlovich were published in 1789, two light operas Krasavitsa i privideniye and Plenira and Zelim, which belonged to the genre of fantastic extravaganzas and put on the court scene. Boris Karlovich began to publish his works, mainly poems, in the magazines Moskovskiy zritel' (1806) and Aglaya (1808-1812). Some of his poems and prose articles also appeared in other Moscow magazines: Russky Vestnik, Trudy Obshchestva lyubiteley slovesnosti pri Moskovskom universitete, Ladies' Magazine.
In the period from 1806 to 1826 published 329 poems and 14 articles in prose. He also owned literary translations of novels, poems, opera libretto - from French, English, German, Arabic. His translations of the novels The Platonic Guardian (1795), The Living Dead, or Neapolitans (1806), and the descriptive poem Four Parts of the Day by Yu. Tsakhariya (1806) were oriented towards a wide circle of admirers of sentimental prose.