Background
He was born at Sutoki, Smolensk Governorate in 1774.
He was born at Sutoki, Smolensk Governorate in 1774.
Glinka was the elder brother of Fedor Nikolaevich Glinka. In 1796 he entered the Russian army, but after three years service retired with the rank of major. He afterwards employed himself in the education of youth and in literary pursuits, first in Ukraine, and subsequently at Moscow, where he died in 1847.