Ivan Petrovich Bocharov

Background

Ivan Petrovich Bocharov was born in 1820. He came from a noble family, and his father was an official.

Education

Between 1836 and 1840 Ivan Petrovich studied at the School of Law.

Career

Bocharov’s literary debut took place in 1836 when Ivan Petrovich published a translation from German of a lecture by Professor Stekgardt, who taught at the School of Law (the work was published under the pseudonym Traum).

After graduation, Ivan Petrovich joined the Fifth Department of the Senate and in 1852 retired with the rank of court adviser.

In 1842 he released a collection of verses Poems, in which there were traditionally elegiac images. Belinsky considered this book a standard of mediocrity. Having created the newspaper Golden Fleece in 1858, he became its editor and publisher, publishing a number of his works there (the novel "Young Years" (1857)).

In 1863, he collaborated with the magazines Yakor' and Osa, where he published feuilletons. Also in the 1860s, he was engaged in private legal practice and was an attorney for the publisher Stellovsky, take part in causa against the sister of M. Glinka, as a result of which he published a brochure The Case of F. Stellovsky and L. Shestakova on musical compositions of M. Glinka, where he casuistically set forth the details of the lost cause. Ivan Petrovich also helped Stellovsky conclude an enslaving contract with F. Dostoevsky.

In recent years, Ivan Petrovich wrote official-patriotic and melodramatic plays, poems, and cantatas.

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989