Vladimir Sollogub Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Vladimir Sollogub Family, Real Name, Spouse, Profession, Eye Color, body stats, Feet Size, Wiki

Count Vladimir Alexandrovich Sollogub (Russian: Ð'Ð»Ð°Ð´Ð¸Ì Ð¼Ð¸Ñ€

Ð Ð»ÐµÐºÑ Ð°Ì Ð½Ð´Ñ€Ð¾Ð²Ð¸Ñ‡ Ð¡Ð¾Ð»Ð»Ð¾Ð³ÑƒÌ Ð±; German: Woldemar Graf

Sollogub (Sollohub); August 20, 1813 in St. Petersburg â€" June 17

(o.s. June 5), 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 Ñ hair 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 Kazán 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]Sollogub's

origins were of the highest nobility, close to the court thanks to his

grandmother Natalia L. Naryshkina (1761-1819). His grandfather, Yan

Sollogub, served as an adjutant of the Polish king and was a prominent

magnate in Lithuania. He increased his wealth to 80,000 souls by means

of the marriage with Natalia Naryshkina, a daughter of the Russian

Emperor's relative Lev Narishkin. Alexander Sollogub (1787â€"1843),

the father of the writer and the son of Yan Sollogub, quickly wasted

his share of the bequest. He held a civil rank of master of ceremonies

(Russian: Ð¦ÐµÑ€ÐµÐ¼Ð¾Ð½Ð¸Ð¹Ð¼ÐµÐ¹Ñ Ñ‚ÐµÑ€, from German

"Zermonienmeister") at the court, however in public he was mainly

known as a dandy. Pushkin mentioned his name ("Eternal Scollogub is

having fun") in the drafts to the 1st chapter of "Eugene Onegin".

Alexander's love for the theater, music, and painting had a valuable

impact on his son, Vladimir.
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