Background
Ivan Alekseevich Vtorov was born on June 1, 1772, in Borsky District, Samara Oblast, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of an official.
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Ivan Alekseevich Vtorov was born on June 1, 1772, in Borsky District, Samara Oblast, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of an official.
Ivan Alekseevich spent his childhood in Orenburg, where his father worked. He started working early, teaching children Russian literacy in the Tatar school.
From the age of fourteen, Ivan Alekseevich started to keep a diary which he continued all his life, only taking small breaks. In his diary he wrote down everything that happened to him, telling about events and people that were contemporary to him.
In 1781, a relative took him to Samara, where he entered the civil service as a copyist in a district court.
From 1791 to 1793, Ivan Alekseevich served as the clerk of the Simbirsk prosecutor. He lived in Samara for about 50 years, fulfilling the post of Samara city mayor from 1812 to 1815 (intermittently). In the years 1816-1834, he took the place of a bailiff at the Samara shops of the Iletsk salt government. In 1835, upon retirement, he received the rank of college assessor.
Ivan Alekseevich Vtorov died at the age of seventy-two on the night of the thirteenth of February 1844, as the result of a serious illness, with the company of his son in his loved library.
Ivan Alekseevich owned the then-largest library of 2000 volumes, which housed Radishchev’s most dangerous work, Travel from Petersburg to Moscow.
In 1806, Ivan Alekseevich married Maria Vasilievna (Milnovich). In 1826, Vtorov’s wife died of consumption and he became a single parent to his four children. In 1830, Ivan Alekseevich sent his son Nikolay for study at the Kazan grammar school. In 1834, Nikolay successfully finished grammar school and at once enrolled at Kazan University in the Department of Literature.
(d. 1826)
