Nikolai Gumilyov during his senior years in gymnasium
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literary critic playwright translator poet
Annensky was born into the family of a public official in Omsk on September 1 N.S. 1855. In 1860, while still a child, he was taken to Saint Petersburg. Innokenty lost his parents early on, and was raised in the family of his older brother, Nikolai Annensky, a prominent Narodnik and political activist.
In 1879, Innokenty graduated from the philological department of St. Petersburg University, where he concentrated on Historical-comparative linguistics.
In 1891 Annesky was hired as director of the P. Galagan College in Kiev. There Annensky attempted to institute his innovative ideas about pedagogy in a series of reforms focused on the teaching of languages and literature. During this period, Annensky began translating Euripides and wrote several articles on Russian literature.
In 1893 he left the Galagan College and moved from Kiev to Petersburg where he was appointed head of the 8th Gymnasium. There he began translating the plays of Euripides. He published the first of his Euripides translations in 1886, Rhesus, and simultaneous staged it at the gymnasium to overwhelming success. Annesky was promoted to the directorship of the celebrated Gymnasium at Tsarskoe Selo. Over the course of his nine-year tenure at the school, Annensky's teaching influenced many children of influential Petersburg families and several future poets and writers, particularly Anna Akhmatova (then Gorenko) and Nikolay Gumilev.
In 1906 he was dismissed from the directorship of Tsarskoe Selo and was appointed District Educational Inspector. He published the first book of Reflections, a collection of essays on contemporary literature. Annensky was again disappointed by the relative silence the book received both from the official press and the literary underground.
Loadmila, is published first (1906) in the journal Severnaia rech' and then is revised and separately published in 1907. Annensky's final and most successful play Thanyras Cytharoede completed in 1906, will not be published until 1913, four years after his death. His Euripides translations appear in two volumes published posthumously beginning in 1916, but he does manage to publish the first volume of translations in 1907.
Although virtually unknown to readers in the Western Hemisphere, Innokenty Annensky was prized in his native Russia for the few slim volumes of verse he produced. He was celebrated by the Acmeist, or anti-Symbolist, movement in Russian literature. His influence grew steadily and by 1917 he was recognized as one of the masters of Russian poetry.
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2002In 1908 Innokenty Annensky became a Member of the board at Apollon (journal) and held the position for a year.
Innokenty Annensky was an exquisite poet and the beloved teacher of the younger generation.
Innokenty Annensky was married and had one son.
He founded the Russian Acmeist movement in Russia.
