- Lev Aleksandrovich Mey
Lev Aleksandrovich Mey ("Лев Александрович Мей") (
1822 -1862 ) - is aRussia n poet.Biography
Lev Mey was born on February 13, 1822, in
Moscow . His father was a German officer who was wounded in the Battle ofBorodino and died young. His mother was Russian. Mey completed his studies in Moscow in1841 and served in the office of the Governor for 10 years. He became part of the "young editorial staff" ofMikhail Pogodin 's "Moskovityanin". For a time, he taught secondary school, but was forced to retire because of conflicts with his colleagues. He moved toSaint Petersburg , where he was active in literary endeavors. It was during this period that he wrote "Reading Library", "Domestic notes", "Son of the Fatherland", "Russian Word", "Russian Peace", and "Svetoch".Extremely disorderly and childishly extravagant, Mey lived a dissipated and
Bohemian life . He had a great fondness for drink, which led to his untimely death on May 16,1862 .External links
* [http://www.litera.ru/stixiya/authors/mej.html Lev Aleksandrovich Mey. Poems]
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