Alexander Palm
| Alexander Ivanovich Palm | |
|---|---|
| Born |
Александр Иванович Пальм February 2, 1822 Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | November 22, 1885 (aged 63) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Occupation | novelist, poet, dramatist |
Alexander Ivanovich Palm (Александр Иванович Пальм, February 2 [o.s. January 21], 1822, Krasnoslobodsk, Penza Governorate, Russian Empire, - November 22 [o.s. 10], 1885, Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire) was a Russian poet, novelist and playwright, who also used the pseudonym P. Alminsky. A member of the Petrashevsky Circle, Palm in 1847 was arrested, spent 8 months in the Petropavlovsk Fortress, had his death sentence changed to deportation and served 7 years in the Russian Army. Among his best known works are Alexey Slobodin. The History of One Family (1874, novel) and Our Friend Neklyuzhev (1879, drama).
Alexander Ivanovich Palm was born in Krasnoslobodsk, Penza region, son of a provincial state official and a serf peasant woman. As a teenager he enrolled into the Saint Petersburg military school and after graduation in 1842 joined the Russian Guards as a junior officer. In 1843 his debut poem published by Literaturnaya Gazeta received praise from critic and playwright Fyodor Koni. In the course of the next five years more than 30 poems by Palm appeared in different Russian magazines.
In 1847 Palm began attending Mikhail Petrashevsky's 'Fridays', and later joined his best friend Sergey Durov's circle. According to his biographer S.L.Kravets, revolutionary ideas had never attracted Palm, and his participation in the underground movement was motivated more by friendship than conviction. During interrogations he expressed deep repentance over his own actions, but refused to give information about his friends. According to an inscription made by a secret police official on Palm's personal file, dated April 29 1849: "His confession is well-written, but... he never reveals, rather tries to conceal Petrashevsky's criminal intentions."
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