Zachar Burinsky

Background

Zachar Burinsky was born in 1784 in Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russian Federation, in the family of a priest. According to some sources, he was of noble origin.

Education

Zachar Burinsky entered the Moscow University Gymnasium (1797), then was transferred to the University's noble Boarding School. He enrolled as a student at Moscow University in 1801: studied at the philosophy faculty.

Career

Zachar Burinsky started his career in university he studied. He served as a librarian at the university library, an associate of philosophy, and verbal Sciences at Moscow University (1807). During this time he was engaged in translation activities.

Burinsky's first publication was an unsigned translation of Anna Mckeesey's Gothic novel fratricide or the Mysteries of Dusseldorf. The poem Poetry was a kind of poetic treatise on the approval of the public purpose of poetry in Russian history. Burinsky's single poems were published in the collections Morning dawn published by the University (1807-1808) and in the magazine News of Russian literature. Passionate about the ancient culture, he proceeded to the translation of Georgic known as Virgil. One of the first translations from Simonides also belongs to Burinsky’s works.

In addition to the university environment, Zachar Burinsky translated comic opera by B. J. Marsollier Two blind men of Toledo and the tragedy of Arno Merinval, or Punished villainy for the Moscow theater.

Membership

• A literary circle of A.F. Merzlyakov

Personality

Quotes from others about the person

• S.P. Zhikharev: "A poet by turns of thought and expression and way of life in a word, a poet by vocation."

Interests

• theatre, antique culture

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989