Yakov Andreevich Galenkovsky was a critic, publisher, translator, writer and poet.
Background
Yakov Andreevich Galenkovsky was born on October 6, 1777, in Poltava, Poltavs'ka Oblast', Ukraine. He came from an ancient Kazak family and was the son of the last Prilutskii regimental scrivener, later a court councillor, Andrei Feodorovich Galenkovsky (died 8 January 1820) and his wife Matrona Yurievna, née Trotskaya.
Education
As a child, Yakov Andreevich was taught by tutor from Kiev academicians. From 1785 studied at the Kiev Academy, in 1787 he moved to a boarding house in Priluki, then to a boarding house in Pereyaslavl, graduated from his education at the Moscow University Noble Boarding House.
Career
In 1790 Yakov Andreevich was assigned to service as an ephraith corporal in the Life Guard Horse Regiment. On 15 April 1797, he was indulged by the horse guardsman in the Cavalry Squadrons and on 9 November of the same year, on the disbandment of these squadrons, an estandart junker was released to the Kirasir Count Saltykov 2nd Regiment (later the Kirasir His Majesty 's Leib Guard Regiment).
Yakov Andreevich was retired from service on October 2, 1798, and the following year he was identified in the Inter-Office for the affairs of the first member, an Active State Councillor of Volchkov.
On December 4, 1800, Yakov Andreevich was made a collegiate registrar and in the same year, he was made city secretaries. A year later, he entered the office of Chief Director of Posts and Telegraphs. In the same year, he received the rank of collegiate secretary, and in 1804 - collegiate assessor.
In 1805, Yakov Andreevich Galenkovsky was given the position of correspondence clerk in the Office of the State Council of the Russian Empire.
From 1802 to 1807 he also published "Korifey, ili klyuch literatury," a collection of articles on the theory of words translated from ancient and new and chosen from Russian theorists. In 1809 he was promoted to Court councillor.