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\n \n KUKOLNIK Nestor Vasilievich (1809, St. Petersburg - 1868) playwright, poet, prose writer, critic, collegiate counsellor (1856). He graduated from Nezhinskaya Gymnasium (1829), lived in St. Petersburg from 1831 to 1847. He worked in various institutions (1831-39). He was the official responsible for the Chancery of the Military Ministry (1847-56). He achieved popularity due to works on historical themes (Our Lord's Hand Saved the Motherland, 1834 etc.), including works about Tsar Peter the Great. He spoke for the theory of Official Nationality in the literary polemics of the time. He was a popular writer in the middle of the 1830s to the middle of the 1840s, he arranged Wednesdays at his flats (the main adresses are: 31 Italyanskaya Street, 3 Fonarny Lane), which N. I. Grech, K. P. Bryullov et al. visited. He composed many songs and novels together with M. I. Glinka (a series of novels Farewell St. Petersburg etc.). He published the first Artistic Newpaper in Russia (1836-42) devoted to painting, in 1842-47, he published other editions of a similar nature.

References: Шубин В. Ф. Поэты пушкинского Петербурга. Л., 1985. С. 293-311.

I. E. Vasilyeva.\n
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