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IVAN IVANOVICH DMITRIEV (1760-1837)

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Originally appearing in Volume V08, Page 349 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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IVAN IVANOVICH See also:DMITRIEV (1760-1837)  , See also:Russian states-See also:man and poet, was See also:born at his See also:father's See also:estate in the See also:government of See also:Simbirsk . In consequence of the revolt of See also:Pugachev the See also:family had to flee to St See also:Petersburg, and there See also:Ivan was entered at the school of the Semenov See also:Guards, and afterwards obtained a See also:post in the military service . On the See also:accession of See also:Paul to the imperial See also:throne he quitted the See also:army with the See also:title of See also:colonel; and his See also:appointment as See also:procurator for the See also:senate was soon after renounced for the position of privy councillor . During the four years from 1810 to 1814 he served as See also:minister of See also:justice under the See also:emperor See also:Alexander; but at the See also:close of this See also:period he retired into private See also:life, and though he lived more than twenty years, he never again took See also:office, but occupied himself with his See also:literary labours and the collection of books and See also:works of See also:art . In the See also:matter of See also:language he sided with Karamsin, and did See also:good service by his own See also:pen against the Old See also:Slavonic party . His poems include songs, odes, satires, tales, epistles, &c., as well as the fables—partly See also:original and partly translated from See also:Fontaine, See also:Florian and See also:Arnault —on which his fame chiefly rests . Several of his lyrics have become thoroughly popular from the readiness with which they can be sung; and a See also:short dramatico-epic poem on Yermak, the Cossack conqueror of See also:Siberia, is well known . His writings occupy three volumes in the first five See also:editions; in the 6th (St Petersburg, 1823) there are only two . His See also:memoirs, to which he devoted the last years of his life, were published at See also:Moscow in 1866 .

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