Background
Ivan Ivanovich Goltz-Miller was born on September 11, 1842 in Joniskelis, Panevezio Apskritis, Lithuania.
Goltz-Miller
Moscow University
Novorossiysk University
Moscow University
Novorossiysk University
Ivan Ivanovich Goltz-Miller was born on September 11, 1842 in Joniskelis, Panevezio Apskritis, Lithuania.
After graduating with honors from the Minsk Gymnasium, in 1860 Ivan Ivanovich entered the law faculty of Moscow University. In January 1863 was sentenced to imprisonment in the "Smiritelnyiy dom" (one of the forms of imprisonment in Russian law, established by Peter the Great; in 1884 was replaced by a prison) for distributing illegal literature.
In the summer, 1863 was deported to Karsun, Simbirsk province. In 1865, upon request of his father, he received permission to move to Odessa, where he entered university (in 1866 was excluded for non-payment of tuition fee for lectures).
Ivan’s first poems were To the Fathers (Ottsam) and In Memory of the Suicide (1863) (Pamyati samoubiytsyi). His works were mainly published in Sovremennik (1864-1865) and in the Notes of the Fatherland (1868-1871) (Otechestvenniye zapiski). The advent of many other poems was prevented by censorship circumstances. Only currently 81 poems of Ivan Ivanovich have been published all, considering poetic heritage. The most remarkable poem written by Goltz-Miller is Listen (1864) (Slushay), which, even during his lifetime, was taken by P. Sokalekim for lyrics to music and became a revolutionary folk song. Ivan Ivanovich translated Western European poets, including A. Barbier, G. Heine, N. Lenau, J. Byron, A. Mitskevich.
Ivan Ivanovich participated in the activities of the first Russian illegal printing house. Despite the fact that he was under public police surveillance, he created a revolutionary organization, with the help of his younger brother Alexander. At the beginning of 1867 was sent to Minsk.
