Fedot Fedotovich Bobylev

Background

Fedot Fedotovich Bobylev was born in 1819 in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Education

Fedot Fedotovich attended the Moscow Gymnasium for four years and completed his education at home.

Career

Fedot Fedotovich published his first poem on pages of Moskovsky nablyudatel in 1836. In 1839 he created the drama Askanio Richi. In 1847 Fedot Fedotovich was elected a managing director of the Caucasian branch of the Moscow commercial agency and moved to Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia).

Fedot Fedotovich collaborated with the newspaper Kavkaz and made friends with many of its columnists and editors. Together, they published the first Caucasian almanac Zurna. In 1857-1863 he was the chief editor of Kavkaz and published dozens of essays, articles, novels, and poems on a range of topics.

Connections

colleague:

Yakov Polonsky

References

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