Background
Mikhail Alekseevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin was born in 1798 in Saint Peterburg, Russian Federation. He descended from the old noble family.
Mikhail Alekseevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin was born in 1798 in Saint Peterburg, Russian Federation. He descended from the old noble family.
When Mikhail Alekseevich was young, he attended Sadunov’s lectures at Moscow University (Moscow University Noble Boarding House) (1829).
In 1816 in Finland Mikhail Alekseevich started military service as an army officer in Vilmanstrand Infantry Regiment. In December 1822 he retired with the rank of a staff-captain. Since the end of 1826, Mikhail Alekseevich worked as an Assistant Head of the Highways Department. In his later years, he was a professor of literature. In 1831-1832 Mikhail Alekseevich published a journal Girlyanda (in Burnashev's opinion, the real publisher was Tatishchev, 1871).
Mikhail Alekseevich Bestuzhev-Ryumin was eclectic with dramatic literary education and an adherent to educational didacticism. Also, he followed the traditions of an elegiac school and combined themes and motives of Zykovski, Baratynski, Davydov, Pushkin. On the other hand, the civic poetry of the Decembrists made a great effect on Bestuzhev-Ryumin. He was fond of the civil poems of Pushkin, Viazemski, and Ryleev.