Background
Ivan Petrovich Alyakrinsky was born in 1802 (according to other sourses - in 1801). He was the son of a priest.
Ivan Petrovich Alyakrinsky was born in 1802 (according to other sourses - in 1801). He was the son of a priest.
It is only known that in 1821 Ivan Petrovich quit the clerical office of the Gorbatov district government in order to enter the philological faculty of Moscow University (1824).
After graduating from the University in 1824, Ivan Petrovich went to the Kostroma province, where he taught and corrected the position of full-time superintendent in the Chukhloma district school. In 1829, after "many and frequent comments by his superiors" he transferred to the Kostroma district school. In 1859, in Kostroma, Ivan Petrovich published the poem "The Tale of Seven Semions, blood brothers" written by Alyakrinsky on a popular literary fairy-tale plot (on the edge of custard-pie).