Background
Ivan Kondratievich Anichkov was born in 1793 in Tver', Russian Federation in a peasant family.
Ivan Kondratievich Anichkov was born in 1793 in Tver', Russian Federation in a peasant family.
In 1814 Ivan Kondratievich started his service in the Ministry of Justice and in 1817 he transfered to the Board of Foreign Affairs. From 1818 to 1820 he met Fyodor Nikolaevich Glinka at the Petersburg Office of the Military Governor. Because of Fyodor Nikolaevich Glinka, Ivan Anichkov joined the Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts.
In the mid 1823 along with Fyodor Nikolaevich Glinka, Orest Mykhailovych Somov, Nikolay Alexandrovich Bestuzhev and Alexander Osipovich Kornilovich he joined the "Domashny Komitet".
Ivan Kondratievich translated articled for the Society's magazine "Sorevnovatel'". After the collapse of the Society his works weren't published in a long period of time.
Starting from 1832 Ivan Kondratievich became the head of the Department of the Ministry of Home Affairs. After 1845 he was a censor of the foreign publications at the Saint Petersburg Post Office.