1. Innokenty Annensky lost his parents early on, and was raised in the family of his older brother, Nikolai Innokenty Annensky, a prominent Narodnik and political activist.
15 Facts About Innokenty Annensky
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In 1879, Innokenty Annensky graduated from the philological department of St Petersburg University, where he concentrated on Historical-comparative linguistics.
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Innokenty Annensky became a teacher, and taught classical languages and ancient literature studies in a gymnasium in Tsarskoe Selo.
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Innokenty Annensky served as the Director of this school from 1886 until his death in 1909.
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Innokenty Annensky was somewhat reluctant to publish his original poems and first gained fame with his translations of Euripides and the French Symbolists.
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At the beginning of the 1900s, Innokenty Annensky wrote a series of tragedies modelled after those of ancient Greece: Melanippe the Wise, King Ixion, Laodamia, and Thamyris the Citharode.
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Innokenty Annensky's essays were sometimes termed "critical prose" because of the artistic value of these texts.
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Nikolai Gumilev valued these theoretical works very highly and considered Innokenty Annensky to be the first true acmeist.
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In literary history, Innokenty Annensky is remembered primarily as a poet.
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Innokenty Annensky started writing poetry in the 1870s but did not publish it.
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Innokenty Annensky decided not to publish any works until he was 35, advice that was given by his older brother Nikolai.
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The book gained moderate praise from leading Symbolists, some of whom didn't suspect that Innokenty Annensky was the author.
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Innokenty Annensky was interested in Symbolism, and he followed its growth in both Europe and Russia.
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Innokenty Annensky saw life as a "wicked enchantment" and an unhappy nightmare that he knew would end in death.
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Innokenty Annensky sensed that life was nothing without the inescapable concept of death and wrote often about symbols of life and time.