Background
Peter Borisov was born in 1811 in Lopasnya (now Chekhov, Moscow Oblast, Russian Federation) in the family of a prosperous peasant.
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Peter F. Borisov
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Peter Borisov learned literacy from a local deacon. Нe early began to engage in self-education. By the age of 15, he got introduced to the works of M.V. Lomonosov, A.P. Sumarokov, M.M. Kheraskov, G.R. Derzhavin, V.A. Zhukovsky, I.I. Dmitriev.
In February 1826 Peter Borisov arrived with his sister in Moscow. He expressed his desire to study literature and the Italian language in order to read F. Petrarch and T. Tasso, whom he knew in Russian translations. Due to Dmitriev’s advice, he wrote an ode, To the Death of Emperor Alexander I, approved by the poet, who, through the trustee of the Moscow constituent district A. A. Pisarev, arranged Borisov to attend a Moscow gymnasium to prepare for university.
There is evidence that Peter Borisov studied at Moscow University, and by 1832 expelled from it for unknown reasons.
Career
Throughout his life, Peter Borisov had such works as Echo, About love for the fatherland, To the Death of Emperor Alexander I, Some stanzas from a solemn ode to the memory of the establishment of the Imperial Moscow University. Further, Borisov's fate is unknown.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
I.M. Snegiryov said: "I like frankness, a bright look and an innocent power of attorney to people in a young poet."
Connections
- Friend:
- Ivan Dmitriev
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Nationality
Russian Empire