Biography Kuchelbecker Wilhelm Karlovich

Kiichelbecker Wilhelm Karlovich (1797 – 1846) – a famous writer. Kiichelbecker studied at the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, where Pushkin was a friend, friendship did not prevent the latter to pursue epigrams poetry exercises Kuchelbecker. From 1815, Kuchelbecker poems began to appear in the Journal of Europe "(signed by William)," Son of the Fatherland "," well-intentioned. "

In 1817 – 20 years. Kiichelbecker served in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In 1820 he went abroad and read at the Paris Athenee lectures on Slavic literature, suspended at the request of the Russian embassy, as too liberal. In 1822 Kiichelbecker served in the Caucasus, with Ermolov, became close friends there with separate bedrooms.

In 1823 – 1825 years. He lived in Moscow, where, along with the book. Odoyevsky, has published four books collection: "Mnemosyne". Kiichelbecker participated in the conspiracy of the Decembrists and shot at the Senate Square, in the lead. book. Mikhail Pavlovich, and then he fled, and intending to flee abroad, arrived in Warsaw, where he was recognized by signs reported by his former friend – Bulgarin. Sentenced to death, he was pardoned at the request of lead. book. Mikhail Pavlovich, and condemned to perpetual servitude, replaced by solitary confinement in Schlusselburg and Kexholm. Material Kiichelbecker not particularly needed, got the book and just could not publish their works, despite the intercession of Zhukovsky.

Shortly before his death, Kiichelbecker, according to Grech, was transferred to the estate of his sister, where he died. Kiichelbecker not stand out talent, he could not break out of the shackles of the old school: his works were written heavy language and dotted with a mass of Slavonicisms.

In the role of a politician, which he hoped to play, he was perfectly sincere, though very fond of, for that Pushkin compared it with Anacharsis Klootsom. Separately Kiichelbecker published: "Death of Byron" (Moscow, 1824); "Shekspirovy Ghosts", a dramatic joke (St. Petersburg, 1825); "Izhorskiy" Mystery (St. Petersburg, 1325). The "Russian Antiquity" (1875 and 1878. Printed extracts from his diary and a poem, written by him in 1842, the city: "The Eternal Jew". Wed Grech, "Notes nedekabrista (BA, 1862 and the Russian Messenger 1868, № 6; biased and often unfair characterization).