Pyotr Alexandrovich Pletnyov was a minor Russian poet and literary critic, who rose to become the dean of the Saint Petersburg University (1840-61) and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1841). Pletnyov befriended the poet Alexander Pushkin, who dedicated his novel in verse "Eugene Onegin" to him. After Pushkin's death in 1837, Pletnyov edited his literary journal "Sovremennik" until the latter was sold to Nikolai Nekrasov in 1846. Wikipedia
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