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GLINKA, FEDOR NIKOLAEVICH (1788-1849)

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GLINKA, FEDOR NIKOLAEVICH (1788-1849) , See also:Russian poet and author, was See also:born at See also:Smolensk in 1788, and was specially educated for the See also:army. In 2803 he obtained a See also:commission as an officer, and two years later took See also:part in the See also:Austrian See also:campaign. His tastes for See also:literary pursuits, however, soon induced him to leave the service, whereupon he withdrew to his estates in the See also:government of Smolensk, and subsequently devoted most of his See also:time to study or travelling about See also:Russia. Upon the invasion of the See also:French in 1812, he re-entered the Russian army, and remained in active service until the end of the campaign in 1814. Upon the See also:elevation of See also:Count Milarodovich to the military governorship of St See also:Petersburg, Glinka was appointed See also:colonel under his command. On See also:account of his suspected revolutionary tendencies he was, in 1826, banished to See also:Petrozavodsk, but he nevertheless retained his honorary See also:post of See also:president of the Society of the See also:Friends of Russian Literature, and was after a time allowed to return to St Petersburg. Soon afterwards he retired completely from public See also:life, and died on his estates in 1849. Glinka's See also:martial songs have See also:special reference to the Russian military See also:campaigns of his time. He is known also as the author of the descriptive poem Kareliya, &c. (Carelia, or the Captivity of Martha Joanovna) (183o), and of a metrical See also:paraphrase of the See also:book of See also:Job. His fame as a military author is chiefly due tohis See also:Pima Russkago Ofitsera (Letters of a Russian Officer) (8 vols., 1815-1816).

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