Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соллогу́б; German: Woldemar Graf Sollogub (Sollohub); 20 August 1813 in St. Petersburg – 17 June 1882 in Bad Homburg) was a minor Russian writer, author of novelettes, essays, plays, and memoirs.
His paternal grandfather was a Polish aristocrat, and he grew up in the midst of St. Petersburg high society.[1] He graduated from the University of Dorpat in 1834 and was attached to the Ministry of Internal Affairs the following year in Vienna.[2] His literary career began in 1837 in the journal Sovremennik. In 1840 he married Sofya Mikhailovna Velgorskaya. In 1843 he visited Nice and met Gogol. From 1856 he was an Officer for Special Commissions in the imperial court; he took an interest in prison reform, and from 1875 was сhair of the Commission for the Reorganization of Prisons in Russia. In 1858 he was sent abroad to study European theater, and in 1877 he became an official historian at court.
Sollogub was a connoisseur of theatrical life and of St. Petersburg society. He hosted a well-known literary and musical salon where he brought to life the atmosphere of St. Petersburg of that era as related in his Memoirs (1887). He is best known for his 1845 novelette Tarantas ("The Tarantass"), "a satirical journey from Moscow to Kazan in a tumble-down traveling cart. The satire, superficial and uninspired, is directed against the ideas of the Slavophils and the unpractical dreaminess of the romantic idealists."[3]
^Michael Pursglove, "V.A. Sollogub and High Society," in The Society Tale in Russian Literature: From Odoevskii to Tolstoi, ed. Neil Cornwell (Rodopi, 1998).
^Arnold Christian Theodor Hasselblatt: "Album Academicum der Kaiserlichen Universität Dorpat", Dorpat: C. Mattiesen, 1889, No. 2834, pp.202-203
^D. S. Mirsky, A History of Russian Literature from its Beginnings to 1900 (repr. Northwestern Univ. Press, 1999), p. 165.
Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub (Russian: Влади́мир Алекса́ндрович Соллогу́б; German: Woldemar Graf Sollogub (Sollohub); 20 August 1813 in St. Petersburg...
dialects to the ancient Indo-European roots with the mark "doubtful". VladimirSollogub and Alexandre Dumas gave ironic descriptions of a tarantass that may...
events, was written by Nestor Kukolnik, Egor Fyodorovich (von) Rozen, VladimirSollogub and Vasily Zhukovsky. It premiered on 27 November 1836 OS (9 December...
lesser authors as Goncharov, Turgenev, Dmitry Grigorovich, Vladimir Dahl and VladimirSollogub. Gogol himself appeared skeptical about the existence of...
everyday life became for him a nightmare close to madness". Count VladimirSollogub also liked the novel, stating that "it was written with force and...
(Вольтижёрка, 1849) and Stary dom (Старый дом, Old House, 1851). With VladimirSollogub he co-wrote a libretto for Anton Rubinstein's Dmitry Donskoy. Zotov...
Pushkin, Nikolai Gogol, Orest Somov, Vladimir Odoevsky, Alexander Veltman, Mikhail Lermontov, Count VladimirSollogub, Alexander Bestuzhev-Marlinsky. Translation...
"high-society drama" in the tradition set by Marlinsky, Vladimir Odoevsky, and VladimirSollogub, tinged with comedy, appeared in another privately published...
Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls, published in the 1st volume of Count VladimirSollogub's Yesterday and Today almanac. The 2nd volume featured Amena, a novella...
designed by Sergo Kobuladze in the 1950s. Vorontsov appointed writer VladimirSollogub as the theater's first director. On 12 April 1851, the theater held...
Russia, he – together with Russian writer VladimirSollogub – travelled from Saint Petersburg to Kazan. Sollogub wrote the novel Tarantas about this journey...
notable figures were Nikolai Nekrasov, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, VladimirSollogub, Fedor Tyutchev, Peter Vyazemsky, Alexander Strugovshchikov, Vasily...
(Vintage Classic Russians Series). Random House. ISBN 978-1-4464-8416-6. Sollogub, Vladimir (2020-11-10). Tarantas: Impressions of a Journey. University of Pittsburgh...
Nikolay Ogarev (1813–1877), poet, historian and political activist VladimirSollogub (1813–1882), writer Alexander von Stieglitz (1814–1884), philanthropist...
Our God Is Great for mixed chorus and orchestra Polonaise; words by VladimirSollogub and Nikolai Khmelnitsky (Николай Иванович Хмельницкий) Choral 1838...
notable figures were Nikolai Nekrasov, Ivan Turgenev, Ivan Goncharov, VladimirSollogub, Fedor Tyutchev, Peter Vyazemsky, Alexander Strugovshchikov, Vasily...
recognised figure at court, and an important centre of court affairs. VladimirSollogub wrote that "Almost all of the nobility were related to her by blood...
«Diary of a Madman» by Nikolai Gogol, «Trouble from a tender heart» by VladimirSollogub, «Another Man's Wife and a Husband Under the Bed» by Fyodor Dostoevsky...
Pride or Lyuta's Eyes", Dmitry Lensky "A Tender Heart's Trouble", VladimirSollogub. "Home". ostrov-teatr.ru. "All theatres of St. Petersburg. Theatres...
Nikolai Chayev, Viktor Krylov, Alexander Palm, Dmitry Averkiyev, VladimirSollogub. For his last ten years on stage Samoylov was the indisputable star...
Bull., vol. 58, no. 12. - pp. 2543–2544 Porfiriev V.B., Dolenko G.N., Sollogub V.B. et al., 1975. Geological structure and development of platform areas...
accepted by the society of that city, and by literary men such as Count VladimirSollogub. There is a story that at one time Madame Pasca was to play Mathilde...
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