Years active 1865 - early 1900s Name Pavel Viskovatov | Role Librettist Libretti The Demon | |
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Full Name Pavel aleksandrovich Viskovatov Born December 6, 1842 ( 1842-12-06 ) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire Occupation literary historian
pedagogue
essayist Died April 29, 1905, Saint Petersburg, Russia | ||
The Demon - Opera - Act II contd
Pavel Alexandrovich Viskovatov (Russian: Па′вел Алекса′ндрович Вискова′тов, also: Висковатый, Viskovatyi; born December 6, 1842, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire, - died April 29, 1905, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian historian of literature, editor, pedagogue and librettist (his were the lyrics to Anton Rubinstein's opera The Demon, based on Mikhail Lermontov's poem of the same name). The Derpt University professor of Russian language and literature (since 1873), Viskovatov devoted himself to re-discovering, compiling, and studying the vast and dispersed Lermontov's legacy. He prepared and in 1891 published in Saint Petersburg the first ever edition of The Works of Mikhail Lermontov. Featured here (in volume VI) the first ever comprehensive academic biography written by Viskovatov, has been used as blueprint by all the subsequent Russian biographers ever since.