Ivan Varlakov

Background

Ivan Varlakov was born in 1789.

Education

Ivan Varlakov studied and then taught history and geography at the Tobol Theological Seminary.

Career

In 1817 Ivan Varlakov moved to the civil service. In 1819 two epigrams of Varlakov were published in the Journal of Europe. It was the first of the few printed performances of the satirist. In 1823 he moved to Krasnoyarsk, where he served in the office of the provincial council and, moreover, he held the office of secretary of the smallpox committee. In the unpublished Address to I.I. Konovalovu, the poet with self-irony spoke of his "shabby frock."

In the Journal of Europe, Varlakov’s original fable Knife and Oselok and a number of witty charades were printed. Ivan Varlakov was a member of the Krasnoyarsk literary group (A.P. Stepanov, A.K. Kuzmin, I.M. Petrov, etc.), which published the Yenisei Almanac for 1828. It contains his poem Happy Life.

Membership

• Krasnoyarsk literary group , Krasnoyarsk

References

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