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Barkov, Ivan Semenovich
Ivan Barkov | |
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Ivan Semyonovich Barkov |
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poet, translator |
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In addition to the so-called Barkoviana (“Maiden’s Toy” and other works of the 18th century created by Barkov himself and his contemporaries), pseudo-Barkoviana stands out (works of the early 19th century and later, which cannot in any way belong to Barkov, but are steadily attributed to him in the manuscript tradition) . The latter includes, in particular, the famous poem “Luka Mudishchev”, created in the 1860s; its unknown author successfully concentrated in this work the then centuries-old “Barkov” tradition. The poems “The Joys of the Empress” (aka “Grigory Orlov”) and “Prov Fomich,” dating back to the 20th century, were also published abroad under the name of Barkov.
Editions
- A girl's toy, or the works of Mr. Barkov / Comp. A. Zorin and N. Sapov [S. Panov]. - M., 1992.
- Barkov I. S. Poems. - St. Petersburg: New Poet Library, 2001.
In fiction
- Mikhail Kazovsky “Lomonosov’s Heir”, historical story, 2011
Notes
Links
- I. Z. Serman. Biographical information about Barkov from the collection “Poets of the 18th Century”, “Poet’s Library”
Categories:
- Personalities in alphabetical order
- Writers by alphabet
- Born in 1732
- Died in 1768
- Died in St. Petersburg
- Poets of Russia
- Russian poets
- Translators of poetry into Russian
- Parodists
- Pornography in Russia
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2010. Ivan Semenovich Barkov
He graduated from the seminary, then worked at the Russian Academy of Sciences successively: as a student, typesetter, copyist, translator. Barkov translated mainly ancient authors. He squandered his talent and strength through excessive drinking. Translated into Russian the satires of Horace (1763), Fables of Fyodor (1764). Barkov also wrote “The Life of Prince Antioch Dmitrievich Kantemir”, attached to the edition of his “Satire”, published in 1762. Barkov had free, smooth and easy verse, not inferior in this regard even to the best contemporary poets Lomonosov and Sumarokov. Paying tribute to Barkov as a poet and translator, it should be said that he gained great all-Russian fame for his, in the words of Metropolitan Evgeniy Bolokhvitinov, “disgraceful” unprinted works. These poems have been scattered throughout Russia in lists for about two centuries. Their fame is so great that a special term was born for works of this kind - “barkovism”.
Pushkin, subsequently, noticed that Barkov was the first of the Russian poets to discard the archaic style and began to write in a living folk language. The characteristics of Barkov’s “shameful” muse were given by A.S. Vengerov in his “Critical-Bibliographical Dictionary of Russian Writers and Scientists” (Issue 25, St. Petersburg, 1890).
Historians of literature have squeamishly ignored this type of literature, but to a certain extent it deserves attention as very influential, since it was very widespread. It seems that only one A.S. Vengerov tried to understand Barkovism, but the foul language that Barkov’s works are actually equipped with crushed the researcher.
The overwhelming majority of what he wrote in an obscene manner consists of the coarsest tavern profanity, where the whole point is that every thing is called by its proper name. From the first words, Barkov blurts out his entire small arsenal of indecent expressions and, of course, all he can do is repeat himself. For those unfamiliar with Barkov’s dirty muse, it should be added that in his poems, devoid of any shade of grace and playfulness, there is also no that pathological element that constitutes the essence of the works of the famous Marquis de Sade. In Europe there are pornographers ten times more immoral and harmful than him, but there is not one with such foul language.
However, besides foul language, one should note Barkov’s folk humor, realistic manner and strong language. In the struggle that went on in literature against high style, Barkov also played his role.
He died in a state of mental attack during a binge, drowning in a latrine, and before his death he noted his fate in the epitaph: “he lived sinfully and died funny.”
His “Works and Translations” were published in St. Petersburg in 1872. edited by S. Vengerova, the publication is greatly distorted by omitted places. The complete edition, without cuts or distortions, was published in Riga in 1932. The complete collection of Barkov’s unprinted works is stored in the Lenin Public Library of the USSR and is called “Girl’s Toy”.
Barkov Ivan Semenovich or Stepanovich, translator of the 18th century and author of obscene poems, born in 1732, died in 1768 in St. Petersburg, by origin “son of a priest.” There is very little biographical information about Barkov; his patronymic has not even been established. Known only from academic papers concerning Lomonosov, the following: in 1748, Lomonosov and Brown had to choose the best from the students of the Neva Seminary for the academic university. They chose only five, then Barkov showed up, not allowed to take the exam by his superiors. According to Lomonosov, he showed “acute understanding” and knowledge of the Latin language.
At the academy, Ivan Barkov studied very well, but his behavior was very bad, so in 1751 he had to leave the academy and decide on a typesetting business. From that time on, the poet’s passion for drunkenness, which, in all likelihood, brought him to an early grave, increased. Seeing Barkov’s outstanding abilities, he was allowed to study Russian “calm” and other subjects privately from professors.
Poet Ivan Barkov. 19th century illustration
At the end of the 1750s. Barkov served as a copyist and proofreader at the academy and was soon appointed translator, since he could write not only in prose, but also mastered verse. In terms of poetic technique, he was second only to Lomonosov and Sumarokov, and in the simplicity of poetic speech stood much higher than them. No more detailed biographical information has been preserved about Ivan Barkov, except for a mass of anecdotes relating to his drunkenness and witty jokes actually said and done by him or attributed only to him.
From Barkov's printed works, we can point to the following poetic translations from Italian and Latin: 1) “The World of Heroes.” Italian composition by Dr. Ludovic Lazaroni Venetianin, arranged in Russian verse by translator Ivan Barkov. This “drama on music” was presented in June 1762 during the celebration of the conclusion of peace between Peter III And Frederick II. 2) Quinta Horace Flaccus Satires or Conversations (St. Petersburg 1763), 3) “Phaedra; Augustus’s freedwoman,” 4) Moral fables, based on Ezopov’s example, composed (St. Petersburg, 1784 and 1787). At the end of the book are appended "Dionysius Cato" two-line poems about good behavior.
Of the original works of Ivan Barkov, it should be noted: “The Life of Prince. Antioch Cantemir”, attached to the publication of the latter’s satires (St. Petersburg, 1762) and “Ode on the birthday of Emperor Peter III” (St. Petersburg, 1762). Barkov also has the following, more serious works: 1) Abridgement of Golberg's universal history, which went through many editions in St. Petersburg. 1766, 1779, 1805 and M. 1808 2) found in the manuscript “Abridged Russian History” from Rurik before Peter the Great. 3) published together with Taubert, volume I of the “Russian Historical Library” (St. Petersburg, 1767), which contains Nestor’s chronicle according to the Koenigsberg list.
Despite the merits of Barkov’s listed works, this poet gained fame not for them, but for his unprinted “shameful works,” which were distributed in a huge number of lists not only during his life, but also after his death. One list, entitled “A Girl’s Toy or the Collected Works of Barkov,” is preserved in the Public Library. This type of Barkov’s works was so popular that the word “Barkovism” began to be used as a name for any obscenity and obscenity in poetry, and things were attributed to him that date back to a much later time. Meanwhile, in Barkov’s poetry there is neither playfulness nor wit, but only the coarsest foul language, where the whole point is that every thing is called by its proper name.
Information about Ivan Barkov can be found in all encyclopedic dictionaries; a fairly detailed description was made by Vengerov, in the “Critical-Biographical Dictionary of Russian Writers and Scientists, issue 25.