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Efim Alekseevich (Evgenii) Bolkhovitinov

Ефим Алексеевич Болховитинов (в монашестве - Евгений)
1767–1837

Son of a priest. He studied at Voronezh Theological Seminary (1778-1784), then at the Slavic-Greek-Latin Academy (1784-1788). Attended lectures at Moscow University, and worked as a proofreader in a printing house. He started his literary activity by translating mainly literary and philosophical French works: "Brief Description of the Lives of Ancient Philosophers" (“Kratkoe opisanie zhiznei drevnikh filosofov”) by Fénelon (1788), satirical "Eulogy to Anything" (“Pokhvalnoe slovo chemu-nibud”) by Louis Coquelet (1787) with a parodical dedication to "Nobody", the anonymous "Parnassus Story" (“Parnasskaia istoriia”) (1788) with enthusiastic praise for Voltaire and harsh attacks against the "poets-flatterers", scholastic poets, champions of "academic rules".

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Франсуа де Салиньяк де Ла Мот- Фенелон
Краткое описание жизней древних философов
Ефим Алексеевич Болховитинов (в монашестве - Евгений), Лев Павловский, Фома Филимонович Розанов
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Moscow
1788