Background
Semyon Sergeyevich Bobrov was born in 1763 in Yaroslavl, Russian Federation. His father was a church minister.
Semyon Sergeyevich Bobrov was born in 1763 in Yaroslavl, Russian Federation. His father was a church minister.
Semyon Sergeyevich entered a religious seminary in Moscow. In 1780 he enrolled in the secondary school attached to Moscow University from which he graduated in 1785.
His first poems were published in 1784 on pages of Sobesednik lyubitelei rossiyskogo slova. Semyon Sergeyevich was the first to create a poetic translation of E. Young's "Night thoughts". In 1785 he moved to Saint Petersburg.
From 1787 Semyon Sergeyevich worked as a translator at the Heroldmeister bureau and collaborated with the editorial Beseduyuschiy grazhdanin. However, in 1792 he left Saint Petersburg and worked as a part of the Black Sea Fleet for three years. From 1795 till 1799 he was the assistant of the local fleet's Chief Commander.
Semyon Sergeyevich retired as a collegiate assessor in 1799 and took trips to the Russian South. His most prominent work of that age was Taurida. It was full of Natural philosophy's ideas. In 1800 he came back to Saint Petersburg to work at the Admiralty till 1804. His next job was the position of an advisor at the Legislative Committee. Semyon Sergeyevich published another collection of poems called "Dawn of the midnight" the same year. His poetry combined the European cultural tradition and Natural philosophy and created his own specific worldview.
Bobrov's last years were clouded by heavy drinking, illness, and financial struggles, and in 1810 he died with tuberculosis.
