Ippolit Vasilevsky

Background

Ippolit Vasilevsky (true identity Ippolit-Peter Ferdinandovich) was born on April 14, 1849, in a polish family.

Education

Ippolit Vasilevsky graduated from Vilna Grammar School in 1865. In 1866-1869 he studied at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics and in 1869-1875 at the Faculty of Law of Saint Petersburg University (now Saint Petersburg State University).

In his student years, he spoke with articles and feuilleton, not disdain for a variety of newspaper work, especially in A. Starchevekogo in "Son of the Fatherland".

Career

The first publication of Ippolit Vasilevsky is the report Scenes of the Justice of the Peace. Essays, articles, and feuilletons in the 70-90s usually were published in the form of cycles: A little from here and a little from there, Sketches and omissions, From the Neva shore, Ripples and swell of native progress, Petersburg sketches, Behind the scenes of politics, Among the inhabitants, etc.

For three decades, from 1875 (officially from 1879) to 1905 Ippolit Vasilevsky edited Strekoza, where he placed the series of feuilleton All sorts of the evil of the day and Flowers and berries of progress in the province, as well as The history of the caricature in samples. Books such as Caricature album of modern Russian figures, Human Comedy, Our morals, Our Beautie, Behind the Scene, Portrait Gallery of Celebrities were published as annexes to the magazine.

In the 1900-1910s Ippolit Vasilevsky occasionally appeared in print, sometimes with his literary parodies. In 1908, in the Satyricon he placed a newspaper and magazine review Among the inhabitants. In 1914, at the beginning of the First World War, Vasilevsky’s political pamphlets such as George V, Wilhelm II, Franz Joseph were published in separate publications in Saint Petersburg. In 1918, caught by the Civil War in his property of Yelenev (Vilensky district of Vilensky province), Vasilevsky turned to the Soviet government with a request to transfer to German citizenship. His further fate is unknown.

References

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