E. Burnet

Background

E. Burnet was born on September 10, 1810, in the city of Penza, Russian Federation, in the family of landless nobles.

Education

When E. Burnet was young he studied at the Saratov Gymnasium.

Career

In 1825 E. Burnet entered the military service as a feuerwerker (cannoneer) of the horse artillery company, in 1829 he was appointed midshipman of the Nizhyn equestrian regiment; then in the hussar regiments in Irkutsk (1830), Ingermanland (1834), and Alexandria (1835). In 1836 he retired with the rank of captain and settled in Saint Petersburg.

In May 1837 E. Burnet entered the service of the Department of State Treasury. Since 1842, he became a Head of the Department. In 1861 E. Burnet rose to the rank of effective state councilor and became Vice-director of the Department.

Personality

E. Burnet was a prominent romantic after the Pushkin period. His poetry, focused on Western models, was distinguished by constant contrasts between musicality and deliberate negligence, trimmed stanzas and compositional friability, high, metaphorical vocabulary and prosaic banality.

Connections

colleague:

Vasily Zhukovsky

colleague:

Vladimir Grigoryevich Benediktov

colleague:

Vissarion Grigoryevich Belinsky

Friend:

Ossip Sekowski

References

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