Sergei Solovyov

Father Sergei Mikhailovich Solovyov (October 25, 1885 in Moscow, Russian Empire – March 2, 1942 in Kazan, USSR) was a Russian Symbolist poet, religious philosopher and an Orthodox (later Greek Catholic) priest. Solovyov was a grandson of the historian Sergey Solovyov, a nephew of the poet and philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, second cousin of Alexander Blok, and a friend of Andrei Bely. Family Born into the family of Mikhail Solovyov, who was the brother of the famous Russian philosopher Vladimir Solovyov, son of poet Polixena Solovieva and novelist Vsevolod Solovyov. Solovyov was also a second cousin of the Russian poet Alexander Blok, with whom he was connected. In September 1912 in the Church of the Nativity of the Virgin in the Nadovrazhnom village(Moscow Province) he married Tatiana Alekseevna Turgeneva. On August 25, 1913 his first daughter, Natalia, was born; in 1914, Mary (who died at the age of five); and, on July 28, 1916 his third daughter was born, Olga. Tatiana Turgeneva was later fascinated by Marxism; she left her husband and remarried. Literary work Solovyov studied at the Moscow private school Lev Polivanov. On January 16, 1903 both of Sergei Solovyov's parents died. In 1904 he entered into the verbal branch of the Faculty of History and Philology at Moscow State University, and in the autumn of 1907 he moved onto the Classical branch of the same Faculty, where he graduated with a first degree in the spring of 1911. Solovyov defended his thesis "Comments to the idyll of Theocritus." Solovyov wrote poetry since childhood, in 1905 for the first time his poems and literary articles were published in the press. In 1907 his first book of poems was published, entitled "Flowers and Incense." Solovyov wrote philosophical and theological works, which were translated in other languages. In 1916, he reissued the poem of his brother Vladimir Solovyov, anticipating the collection of biographical essays, the epigraph to his word, he puts the Croatian Bishop Josip Juraj Strossmayer " Solovief Anima Candida, pia AC Vere sancta Est ". In 1926 he translated Adam Mickiewicz's Conrad Wallenrod from Polish to Russian. In 1928, he also worked on a translation of Virgil's Aeneid.