Ivan Pnin

Ivan Petrovich Pnin (Russian: Иван Петрович Пнин; 1773–1805) was a Russian poet and political writer.[1] In accordance with Russian Illegitimacy custom, Pnin's surname was the abbreviation of that of his father, Prince Nicholas Repnin.

Biography

Born out of wedlock, he famously deplored the status of illegitimate children in his 1802 petition to Alexander I of Russia (Pnin's father was rumored to have also illegitimately fathered Poland's Prince Adam Jerzy Czartoryski.)

Pnin's liberal Essay on the Enlightenment in Russia (1804) attacked serfdom and therefore was banned in the Russian Empire.

The titles of Pnin's best-known poems, Man (1804) and God (1805), mirror Derzhavin's on purpose, as he sought to refute the great poet's idealism by taking up the Deist stance of Radishchev, Volney, and d'Holbach.

gollark: I could probably add some sort of "dark mode" or custom CSS options to my site, but so far nobody at all has requested it and it seems like a problem for browsers instead of my code.
gollark: Why randomly hide a somewhat useful thing?
gollark: *flexes in having a superior LCD display instead of foolish (AM)OLED*
gollark: *flexes in having a website with no theming capability whatsoever*
gollark: If I did care that much I can... well, cobble together some cascading™ style™ sheets™.

References
  1. Samuel C. Ramer, "The Traditional and the Modern in the Writings of Ivan Pnin," Slavic Review, vol. 34, no. 3 (Sept. 1975), pp. 539-59.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.