Name

Mikhail Ivanovich Verevkin

Original name

Михаил Иванович Веревкин

Main activity

Poet

Secondary activity

Translator

Title

Name variations

Verebkine"

Education place

Saint Petersburg

Education institution

Naval Cadet Corps

Activity place

Saint Petersburg

Activity institution

Her Majesty's Office

Activity start date

1770

Activity end date

1792

Place of birth

Pokrovskoe

Date of birth

1732

Place of death

Mikhalevo

Date of death

1795

Bibliographical references

https://www.zotero.org/groups/2447618/euqu_european_quran/collections/8N8N9JV3/tags/1790%20Russian%20Qur'an/collection

Descriptive card

Mikhail Ivanovich Verevkin (1732-1795) was a Russian poet, playwright, and translator. He graduated from the Naval Cadet Corps in 1743 and joined the Navy afterward, where he served for ten years. After several years of work at various educational institutions, in 1763, Verevkin was granted the rank of collegiate counselor; the title implied that the Office of Catherine the Great financed the publication of his translations. In 1782 Verevkin became a corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Verevkin is the author of several comedy plays, poems, and numerous translations from French into Russian, including Du Ryer's Qur'an translation and Memoirs of Maximilien de Béthune, Duke of Sully.

Entry author

Gulnaz Sibgatullina