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FEDOR NIKOLAEVICH GLINKA (1788-1849)

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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 122 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FEDOR NIKOLAEVICH

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

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