Date of Birth:
Place of Birth:	Omsk, Russian empire
Date of death:
A place of death:	Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Citizenship:	Russian empire
Occupation:	Poet, playwright, translator
Years of creativity:
Direction:	Symbolism
Aliases:	Ah, I.; An-iy, I.; A-sky, I.; Nobody; Oh, Nick. (Nobody); Nobody

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(August 20 (September 1), 1855, Omsk, Russian Empire - November 30 (December 13), 1909, St. Petersburg, Russian Empire) - Russian poet, playwright, translator. Brother of N. F. Annensky.

Biography

Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky was born on August 20 (September 1), 1855 in Omsk in the family of state official Fyodor Nikolaevich Annensky (died March 27, 1880) and Natalia Petrovna Annenskaya (died October 25, 1889). His father was the head of the department of the Main Directorate Western Siberia. When Innokenty was about five years old, his father got a job as an official in special assignments in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the family from Siberia returned to St. Petersburg, which they had previously left in 1849.

Poor health, Annensky studied at private school, then - in the 2nd St. Petersburg progymnasium (1865-1868). From 1869 he studied for two and a half years at private gymnasium V. I. Berens. Before entering the university, in 1875, he lived with his older brother Nikolai, encyclopedically educated person, economist, populist, who helped younger brother in preparation for the exam and had a great influence on Innokenty.

After graduating from the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University in 1879, he served as a teacher of ancient languages ​​and Russian literature. He was the director of the Galagan College in Kyiv, then the VIII gymnasium in St. Petersburg and the gymnasium in Tsarskoye Selo. The excessive softness shown by him, according to the authorities, in the troubled time of 1905-1906, was the reason for his removal from this post. In 1906, he was transferred to St. Petersburg as a district inspector and remained in this position until 1909, when he retired shortly before his death. He lectured on ancient Greek literature at the Higher Women's Courses. He appeared in print from the beginning of the 1880s with scientific reviews, critical articles and articles on pedagogical issues. From the beginning of the 1890s, he began to study Greek tragedians; over the course of a number of years, he performed a tremendous job of translating into Russian and commenting on the entire theater of Euripides. At the same time, he wrote several original tragedies based on Euripides' plots and the "Bacchic drama" Famira-kifared (played in the 1916-1917 season on the stage of the Chamber Theater). He translated French Symbolist poets (Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Corbière, A. de Regnier, F. Jamm and others).

On November 30 (December 13), 1909, Annensky died suddenly on the steps of the Tsarskoselsky railway station in St. Petersburg.

Annensky's son, philologist and poet Valentin Annensky-Krivich, published his Posthumous Poems (1923).

Poetry

Annensky is most significant as a poet. Poetry began to write from childhood, but published them for the first time in 1904. "Intelligent being" by his Annensky, according to him own words, was entirely obliged to the influence of his older brother, the famous populist publicist N.F. Annensky, and his wife, the sister of the revolutionary Tkachev. In his poetry, Annensky, as he himself says, sought to express the “urban, partly stone, museum soul”, which was “tortured by Dostoevsky”, “the sick and sensitive soul of our days”. The world of the "sick soul" is the main element of Annensky's work. According to the fair indications of criticism, "nothing succeeded in Annensky's poetry as vividly, so convincingly as the description of nightmares and insomnia"; “To express the painful decline of the spirit, he found thousands of shades. He told the curves of his neurasthenia in every possible way. The hopeless longing of life and the horror of "liberating" death, the simultaneous "desire to annihilate and the fear of dying", rejection of reality, the desire to escape from it into the "sweet hashish" of delirium, into the "binge" of labor, into the "poison" of poetry and at the same time " mysterious" attachment to "everyday life", to everyday life, to "the hopeless ruin of his vulgar world" - such is the complex and contradictory "worldview and worldview" that Annensky seeks to "inspire" with his poems.

Approaching this "worldview" of all his contemporaries most of all to Fyodor Sologub, the forms of verse Annensky is closest to the young Bryusov of the period of the "Russian Symbolists". However, the exaggerated "decadence" of Bryusov's first poems, in which there was a lot of deliberate, invented with the special purpose of attracting attention, "shocking" the reader, who did not publish his poems in Annensky, is deeply organic in nature. Bryusov soon departed from his early student experiences. Annensky remained faithful to "decadentism" throughout his life, "froze in his modernism at a certain point in the early 90s", but on the other hand, he brought it to perfection. artistic expression. Annensky's style is brightly impressionistic, often distinguished by sophistication, standing on the verge of pretentiousness, lush rhetoric of décadence.

Like the young Bryusov, Annensky's poetic teachers were French poets second half of XIX centuries - the Parnassians and the "damned": Baudelaire, Verlaine, Mallarme. Annensky inherited their cult from the Parnassians poetic form, love for the word as such; Verlaine followed in his striving for musicality, for the transformation of poetry into a "melodic rain of symbols"; following Baudelaire, he whimsically intertwined in his dictionary "high", "poetic" sayings with scientific terms, with ordinary, emphatically "everyday" words borrowed from vernacular; finally, following Mallarmé, he built the main effect of his rebus poems on a conscious obscuration of meaning. Annensky is distinguished from the "passionless" French parnassians by a special piercing note of pity, which sounds through all his poetry. This pity is directed not at the social suffering of mankind, not even at a person in general, but at nature, at the inanimate world of offended things suffering and languishing with “evil insults” (watches, dolls, barrel organ, etc.), with the images of which the poet masks his own pain and flour. And the smaller, insignificant, more insignificant the “suffering” thing, the more hysterical, aching self-pity it causes in him.

His poem “Old Estonians” (From Poems of a Nightmarish Conscience) is very different from Annensky’s other poems - a response to the execution of a demonstration in Reval (Tallinn) on October 16, 1905. It differs in its poetic power and from many poems written by other poets, poems that were inspired by the events of the first Russian revolution.

The peculiar literary fate of Annensky resembles the fate of Tyutchev. Like the latter, Annensky is a typical "poet for poets." He published his only lifetime book of poems under the characteristic pseudonym “Nick. That". Indeed, for almost his entire life, Annensky remained a “nobody” in literature. Only shortly before his death did his poetry gain popularity in the circle of St. Petersburg poets, grouped around the Apollo magazine. The death of Annensky was marked by a number of articles and obituaries, but after that his name again disappears from the printed columns for a long time. In the 4th book of poems by Nikolai Gumilyov "Quiver" the poem "In Memory of Annensky" was published.

Dramaturgy

Annensky wrote four plays - "Melanippa the Philosopher", "King Ixion", "Laodamia" and "Famira the Kifared" - in the ancient Greek spirit on the plots of the lost plays of Euripides and in imitation of his manner.

Translations

Annensky translated into Russian complete collection plays by the great Greek playwright Euripides. He also performed poetic translations of works by Horace, Goethe, Muller, Heine, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Rainier.

Literary influence

Annensky's literary influence on the currents of Russian poetry that arose after symbolism (acmeism, futurism) is very great. Annensky's poem "The Bells" can rightly be called the first Russian futuristic poem in time. Annensky's influence strongly affects Pasternak and his school and many others. In his literary-critical articles, partly collected in two Books of Reflections, Annensky gives brilliant examples of Russian impressionistic criticism, striving to interpret artwork by conscious continuation of the author's creativity. It should be noted that already in his critical and pedagogical articles of the 1880s, Annensky, long before the formalists, called for a systematic study of the form of works of art in schools.

Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky (1855-1909) - Russian playwright, poet, translator, critic, researcher of literature and language, director of the men's Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium. Brother of N. F. Annensky.

Childhood and youth

Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky was born on August 20 (September 1), 1855 in Omsk, in the family of the state official Fyodor Nikolaevich Annensky (died March 27, 1880) and Natalia Petrovna Annenskaya (died October 25, 1889). His father was the head of the department of the Main Directorate of Western Siberia. When Innokenty was about five years old, his father received a position as an official for special assignments in the Ministry of Internal Affairs, and the family returned from Siberia to St. Petersburg, which they had previously left in 1849. As a child, Innokenty was a very weak and sickly boy.

Annensky studied at a private school, then at the 2nd St. Petersburg progymnasium (1865-1868). Since 1869, he studied for two and a half years at the private gymnasium of V. I. Berens. Before entering the university, in 1875, he lived with his older brother Nikolai, an encyclopedically educated person, an economist, a populist, who helped his younger brother in preparing for the exam and had a great influence on Innokenty.

Activity as director of the gymnasium

After graduating in 1879 from the Faculty of History and Philology of Petersburg University for a long time served as a teacher of ancient languages ​​and Russian literature at the Gurevich gymnasium. He served as director of the Galagan College in Kyiv (January 1891 - October 1893), then the 8th St. Petersburg Gymnasium (1893-1896) and the gymnasium in Tsarskoye Selo (October 16, 1896 - January 2, 1906). The excessive softness shown by him, according to his superiors, during the troubled times of 1905-1906, was the reason for his dismissal from this post. He lectured on ancient Greek literature at the Higher Women's Courses.

The position of director of the gymnasium always weighed on I. F. Annensky. In a letter to A.V. Borodina in August 1900, he wrote: You ask me: “Why don’t you leave?” Oh, how much I thought about it... How much I dreamed about it... Maybe it wouldn't be so difficult... But you know what do you think seriously? Does a convinced defender of classicism have a moral right to throw down its banner at a moment when it is surrounded on all sides by evil enemies? ... - Innokenty Annensky. Favorites / Comp. I. Podolskaya. - M.: Pravda, 1987. - S. 469. - 592 p.

From 1906 to 1909 he held the position of district inspector in St. Petersburg, and shortly before his death he retired.

Literary and translation activities

The creative biography of Innokenty Annensky begins in the early 1880s, when Annensky appears in print with scientific reviews, critical articles, as well as articles on pedagogical issues.

From the beginning of the 1890s, he began to study Greek tragedians; over the course of a number of years, he performed a tremendous job of translating into Russian and commenting on the entire theater of Euripides. At the same time, he wrote several original tragedies based on Euripides' plots and the "Bacchic drama" Famira-kifared (played in the 1916-1917 season on the stage of the Chamber Theater). He translated French Symbolist poets (Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Mallarmé, Corbière, A. de Regnier, F. Jamm and others). The first book of poetry Quiet songs"was released in 1904 under the pseudonym" Nick. T-o”, imitating the abbreviated name and surname, but developing into the word “No one” (this name was presented to Polyphemus by Odysseus).

Annensky wrote four plays - "Melanippa the Philosopher" (1901), "King Ixion" (1902), "Laodamia" (1906) and "Famira-kifared" (1906, published posthumously in 1913) - in the ancient Greek spirit on the plots of the lost tragedies of Euripides and in imitation of his manner.

Innocent Annesky translated into Russian all 18 tragedies that have come down to us by the great ancient Greek playwright Euripides. He also performed verse translations of works by Horace, Goethe, Muller, Heine, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud, Renier, Sully-Prudhomme, Longfellow.

On November 30 (December 13), 1909, Annensky died suddenly on the steps of the Tsarskoselsky railway station in St. Petersburg from a heart attack. He was buried at the Kazan cemetery in Tsarskoye Selo (now the city of Pushkin Leningrad region). Annensky's son, philologist and poet Valentin Annensky (Krivich), published it " Cypress Casket"(1910) and" Posthumous Poems "(1923).

Literary influence

Annensky's literary influence on the currents of Russian poetry that arose after symbolism (acmeism, futurism) is very great. Annensky's poem "The Bells" can rightly be called the first Russian futuristic poem in time. His poem "Among the Worlds" is one of the masterpieces of Russian poetry; it formed the basis of romances written by A. Vertinsky and A. Sukhanov. Annensky's influence strongly affects Pasternak and his school, Anna Akhmatova, Georgy Ivanov and many others. In his literary-critical articles, partly collected in two "Books of Reflections", Annensky gives brilliant examples of Russian impressionist criticism, striving to interpret a work of art by consciously continuing the author's work in himself. It should be noted that already in his critical and pedagogical articles of the 1880s, Annensky, long before the formalists, called for a systematic study of the form of works of art in schools.

Memories of Annensky

Professor B. E. Raikov, former student 8th St. Petersburg Gymnasium, wrote in his memoirs about Innokenty Annensky:

... absolutely nothing was known about his poetic experiments at that time. He was known only as the author of articles and notes on philological topics, and he kept his poems to himself and did not publish anything, although at that time he was already about forty years old. We schoolboys saw in him only a tall, thin figure in a uniform, who sometimes threatened us with a long white finger, but in general kept very far from us and our affairs.

Annensky was a zealous defender of ancient languages ​​and held high the banner of classicism in his gymnasium. Under him, our recreational hall was all painted with ancient Greek frescoes, and the gymnasium students played the plays of Sophocles and Euripides on holidays. Greek, moreover, in antique costumes, strictly designed in the style of the era.

In the city of Pushkin on Naberezhnaya Street at house number 12 in 2009, a memorial plaque was installed (sculptor V.V. Zaiko) with the text: “In this house from 1896 to 1905 the poet Innokenty Fedorovich Annensky lived and worked at the Imperial Tsarskoye Selo Gymnasium.”

Name: Innokentiy Annenskiy

Age: 54 years old

Activity: poet, playwright, translator, critic

Family status: was married

Innokenty Annensky: biography

"For 45 minutes topic" silver Age“It is almost impossible to tell, since it takes about five years for a philology student to begin to understand it very approximately,” said publicist and literary critic Dmitry Bykov.

One cannot but agree with this statement, because at the turn of the late XIX- the beginning of the 20th century, so many undeniable talents appeared and literary movements It's really hard to tell everyone. This is both a representative of acmeism, and an adherent of cubo-futurism, and it should also be noted that others famous people. But from this list, one should single out the symbolist Innokenty Annensky, who stood at the origins of the formation of trends in Russian poetry.

Childhood and youth

Innokenty Annensky was born on August 20 (September 1), 1855 in Omsk, which is rich in sights and cultural property(It is not for nothing that Omsk is called the “theater city”). Future poet I grew up in an average and exemplary family. Innokenty's parents were not one iota close to creativity: his mother Natalia Petrovna led household, and father Fyodor Nikolaevich held a high public post.

The main breadwinner in the house received the post of chairman of the Provincial Administration, so the parents and their son moved to the city of universities and scientists - Tomsk.

But in this place, about which he once spoke impartially, Innokenty did not stay long: already in 1860, because of the work of his father, the Annenskys again packed their bags and left harsh Siberia - the road lay to St. Petersburg. It is known that Fedor Nikolaevich soon became interested in a scam, so he went bankrupt, left with nothing.

As a child, Annensky was in poor health, but the boy did not stay on homeschooling and went to a comprehensive private school, and later became a student of the 2nd St. Petersburg progymnasium. Since 1869, Innokenty was on the bench of the private gymnasium of V.I. Berens, while preparing for admission to the university. In 1875, Annensky was visiting his older brother Nikolai Fedorovich, who was a journalist, economist and populist publicist.

Nikolai Fedorovich, educated and intelligent person, influenced Innokenty and helped him in preparing for the exams. Thus, Annensky easily became a student of the historical and philological faculty of St. Petersburg University, from which he graduated in 1879. It is noteworthy that in all subjects the poet had solid "five", while in philosophy and theology there were marks one ball lower.

Further, before the ink had dried on Annensky's diploma, he began to lecture on ancient languages ​​and Russian literature at the Gurevich gymnasium and was known among the students as the strongest teacher. Among other things, Innokenty Fedorovich served as director of the Galagan College, the eighth St. Petersburg gymnasium and the gymnasium in Tsarskoye Selo, where he once studied.

Literature

Innokenty Fedorovich began writing since early age. But then the poet did not know what symbolism was, therefore he considered himself a mystic. By the way, symbolism is the largest trend in literature and art, characterized by mystery, mystery, the use of allusions and metaphorical expressions. But, according to critics, the work of the genius of literature does not fit into the framework of "symbolism", but represents "pre-symbolism".

Writer Innokenty Annensky

In addition, Innokenty Fedorovich tried to follow the "religious genre" of the Spanish painter of the "golden age" Bartolome Esteban Murillo. True, the writer tried to convey the expression of virgin purity, meekness and prayer tenderness with the help of words, and not brushes and paints.

It is noteworthy that Innokenty Fedorovich did not seek to show his early creative efforts to eminent writers and magazine owners. The fact is that Nikolai Fedorovich advised his younger brother to start publishing in adulthood, having established itself on life path and realizing his calling.

Therefore, the book Quiet Songs was published only in 1904, when Innokenty Annensky was known as a brilliant teacher and respected person. The symbolist also began to engage in dramaturgy, from his pen came out plays: "Melanippa the Philosopher" (1901), "King Ixion" (1902), "Laodamia" (1906) and "Famira-kifared" (1913-posthumously) in which the poet tried to imitate his favorite ancient Greek writers, and, the geniuses of ancient mythology.

In his manuscripts, Annensky adhered to impressionism: he described things not as he knew, for all phenomena and objects were inherent in the poet's vision in this moment. The main motives in the works of Innokenty Fedorovich are melancholy, melancholy, sadness and loneliness, which is why he so often describes cold, twilight and sunsets without excessive pretentiousness and exaltation. This trend can be traced in the poems "Snow", "Bow and Strings", "Two Loves", "Tormenting Sonnet" and other remarkable works.

Among other things, Innokenty Fedorovich replenished creative biography translation of manuscripts of their foreign colleagues. Thanks to him, Russian-speaking readers got acquainted with the famous tragedies of Euripides, as well as with poems by Hans Muller, Christian Heine and other literary geniuses.

Annensky made huge contribution into the world of intricate lines. For example, his poem "Bells" can be correlated with the first work in a futuristic style. The second poetic collection of Innokenty Fedorovich "Cypress Casket" brought recognition and fame to the poet, however, posthumously. It included poems "Among the Worlds", "Oreanda", "Silver Noon", "Ice Prison", "October Myth" and other works.

Personal life

Contemporaries of Innokenty Fedorovich used to say that he was loyal and kind person. But sometimes excessive softness played bad joke. For example, he lost his position as director of the gymnasium in Tsarskoye Selo.

There is little information about the personal life of the poet, because even in his works the writer rarely shared emotional experiences and what remains under the veil of secrecy. It is known that fate brought the sophomore Annensky with the eccentric 36-year-old widow Nadezhda (Dina) Valentinovna, who came from a well-born class. The lovers immortalized their relationship by marriage, and soon a son, Valentine, was born.

Death

Innokenty Fedorovich died unexpectedly. Of course, he was in poor health, but on that fateful day, November 30 (December 13), 1909, nothing foreshadowed trouble. Annensky died of a heart attack at the age of 54, right on the steps of the Tsarskoselsky railway station (St. Petersburg).

• Once, when Innokenty Annensky was in bad mood and was burdened with thoughts, his wife came up to him and said: “Kenechka! Why are you sitting sad? Open your mouth, I'll give you an orange!". Dina also liked to arrange dinners with her girlfriends, although Annensky shunned people and adhered to the policy of an outsider. What the poet thought about his marriage is not known for certain.
• Annensky began to publish at the age of 48, not striving for recognition and fame: the poet hid his true face, I publish under the pseudonym "Nick.-T-o".

• In the years of Annensky's youth, his sisters found the first attempts of the little creator. But instead of praise, the boy received a vociferous laugh, because the girls were amused by the line from the poem: "God sends her a sweet figure from heaven." This gave rise to many jokes, so Innokenty Fedorovich hid his drafts in a secluded place, afraid to present them to the public.
• The poetic collection "Cypress Casket" was named so for a reason: Innokenty had a box made of cypress wood, where the poet kept notebooks and drafts.

Quotes

“... I love it when there are children in the house
And when they cry at night

“Love is not peace, it must have a moral result, first of all for those who love.”

“But ... there are such moments,
When it's scary and empty in the chest ...
I am heavy - and dumb and bent ...
I want to be alone… go away!”

“Oh, give me eternity, and I will give eternity
For indifference to insults and years.

"There is love like smoke:
If it's tight for her, she's intoxicating,
Give her free rein and she won't be...
To be like smoke - but forever young.

Bibliography

Tragedies:

• 1901 - "Melanippa the Philosopher"
• 1902 - "King Ixion"
• 1906 - "Laodamia"
• 1906 - "Famira-kifared"

Collections of poems:

• 1904 - Quiet Songs
• 1910 - "Cypress Casket"

Annensky is generally full of mysteries and paradoxes. From his autobiography, you can learn that he was born in 1855 in the city of Omsk, but modern researchers found out that this actually happened in the city of Tomsk in 1856. If Innokenty Annensky did not consider it necessary to remember the exact place and date of his own birth, one might think that this fact itself was unimportant to him. When he was five, he became seriously ill and the result of the disease was a heart defect that changed his entire life. later life. Physically very weak, he could not play with his peers and grew up in the world of adults, which is why his natural craving for loneliness, isolation, contemplation strongly developed in his character.
His illness coincided with the family's move to St. Petersburg, where his father, Fyodor Nikolaevich Annensky, who held a high post in Siberia, hoped to receive a good place. The location was not very good. There were six children in the family: four sisters and two brothers, of the children Innokenty was the youngest. To support his family with dignity, his father engaged in speculation, but went bankrupt. The case was accompanied by loud scandals with creditors, because of which the authorities, having decided that such commercial activity has little to do with public service, fired Fedor Nikolaevich without severance pay. And only the intercession and efforts of the eldest son helped him receive a small pension. On top of all the troubles, Fyodor Nikolaevich was paralyzed.
The denouement of family misfortunes came in 1874, when Innokenty Annensky was supposed to take exams for a matriculation certificate, it is not surprising that he failed: he did not pass a written exam in mathematics and was not admitted to the next. In general, he studied at several different gymnasiums in St. Petersburg, but completed his education at home. Innokenty Annensky did not like to remember his childhood. In his youth, he wrote poems that have not survived, because he destroyed them once, considering them nonsense.

The next year, 1875, Innokenty lived with his older brother, under whose guidance he prepared for exams much better and received the following marks: the law of God and French - "excellent", Russian and mathematics - "good", and "satisfactory" in all other subjects . He entered the St. Petersburg University in the Department of History and Philology. From childhood, knowing German and French at the university, he mastered fourteen ancient languages, among which, in addition to Greek and Latin, were Hebrew, Sanskrit, and also nearby Slavic languages. At the university, Innokenty Annensky studied comparative philology and completely abandoned writing poetry. He passed his final exams brilliantly, getting "excellent" in all subjects, except for philosophy and theology, in which he received "good".

Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich was born in Omsk in 1855 in the family of an important government official. In 1860, my father received a new appointment, and the whole family moved to St. Petersburg.

Education

At first, Annensky studied at a private school (due to poor health), then at the 2nd St. Petersburg gymnasium, then again at a private school. He was helped to enter the university by his elder brother Nikolai Annensky, an outstanding encyclopedist, economist, populist.

In 1875 he entered the Faculty of History and Philology of St. Petersburg University, and in 1879 he graduated with honors and began teaching. Annensky worked in both public and private schools. Usually he either taught Russian literature, or history, or ancient languages. Even then, it was clear to everyone that this man was a big fan of classicism in its purest form.

Peak teaching career

Annensky managed to work as a teacher of the Russian language, literature, history, ancient languages ​​in St. Petersburg, Moscow, and Kyiv, but in 1896 he was appointed director of the gymnasium in Tsarskoye Selo. The students adored him, although they considered him a big eccentric, but in 1906 the authorities considered him too soft and fired him. Annensky was very upset by the dismissal, because he really loved his job very much.

Creative activity

After his dismissal from the gymnasium, Annensky worked as a district inspector, but at the same time he managed to make translations from ancient Greek and French(translated Euripides, Baudelaire, Verlaine, Rimbaud), published several collections of poems, wrote critical articles. Annensky's work was highly appreciated by his contemporaries, he was considered almost the best translator in St. Petersburg and a connoisseur of Russian literature. He was a recognized authority on classicism and classical education.

Death

Annensky died suddenly of a heart attack in 1909. He was buried in Tsarskoye Selo (now it is the city of Pushkin). His son, too famous poet, did everything to the poems of his father and his dramatic works were published, he also published the first short biography Annensky I.F and biography of his brother Annensky N.F.

Other biography options

• Annensky was a great admirer of ancient Greek playwrights. During his leadership of the gymnasium in Tsarskoe Selo, he did everything to ensure that the students had an excellent command of the ancient Greek language.
• It is interesting that for a long time Annensky's close friends did not know anything about his plays, designed in the spirit of Euripides, and about his poems. Annensky hid his poetic and dramatic talent. According to contemporaries, he was quite humble person. Meanwhile, Annensky was considered a genius by many recognized classics of Russian literature. Anna Akhmatova loved him very much, Pasternak admired him.
• Annensky's poem "The Bells" is considered the first futuristic Russian poem. Annensky's poem "Among the Worlds" (considered one of best poems in domestic literature) was set to music written by A. Vertinsky.
• In addition to ancient languages ​​and French, Annensky also knew German and English. He translated a lot of Goethe, Müller, Heine. From ancient Roman (Latin), he translated the works of Horace.

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