Background
Ivan Alexandrovich Velyaminov was born in 1772. He comes from the nobles of Tula Governorate.
Ivan Alexandrovich Velyaminov was born in 1772. He comes from the nobles of Tula Governorate.
After graduating from the Page Corps in 1796 Ivan Alexandrovich was ranked as poruchik of Semyonov Lifeguard Regiment. He was promoted quickly: in the end of 1807 he was promoted to major general and transferred to the Keksgolm Musketeer Regiment; participant of anti-Napoleonic campaigns (1805-1807) and Russian-Swedish war 1808-1809.
Ivan Alexandrovich was retired from November 1810 till September 1811 "for the weak command of the regiment". During the Patriotic war of 1812, he was a divisional commander of the 33rd infantry regiment (1812), commander of the 1st reserve corps, head of the 25th infantry divisions (1814).
From 1818 Ivan Alexandrovichwas the division commander in Georgia, from 1827 to the general-governor of West Siberia. In 1834 he was transferred to Petersburg as a member of the Council and elected in Russian Academy.
People used his translation of "Othello" till the end of the 1830s. According to the words of the reviewer, his language was "clean and fluid". Perhaps he was also a translator of the Sh. Bonnet treatise "Philosophical beginnings of the first reason and the action of this" (1805) and the anonymous "History of Ludovico XVI" (1811).
