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Aleksey Nikolaevich Apuhtin
Алексей Апухтин
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Born in Bolkhov in Orel province, in an old noble family. In 1854, a patriotic poem by 14-year-old Apukhtin “Epaminond” was published. In 1859, Apukhtin graduated with a gold medal from the School of Law and entered the service in the Department of the Ministry of Justice. In the same 1859, he really debuted in the literary field, placing a number of poems in "Contemporary". In 1864 he moved to St. Petersburg. On the basis of literary interests, he became close in the 1880s with Grand Duke Konstantin
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Born in Bolkhov in Orel province, in an old noble family. In 1854, a patriotic poem by 14-year-old Apukhtin “Epaminond” was published. In 1859, Apukhtin graduated with a gold medal from the School of Law and entered the service in the Department of the Ministry of Justice. In the same 1859, he really debuted in the literary field, placing a number of poems in "Contemporary". In 1864 he moved to St. Petersburg.
On the basis of literary interests, he became close in the 1880s with Grand Duke Konstantin Konstantinovich; several times he read his poems in the presence of Emperor Alexander III. In the 1870s, he began painfully obese, which in the last ten years of his life took on colossal dimensions and brought to real poverty. At the end of his life, he barely got out of the couch. Apukhtin died of dropsy