Miller F. B. Poems. 1840 - 1860.

Miller F. B. Poems. 1840 - 1860.
Lifetime edition.

M. Miller's Printing House. 1872, p. 340 Third edition. Hard cover. 14 x 21 cm. 

the book of poems by Fyodor Bogdanovich Miller (1818-1881) contains mainly translations from German romantics. In the history of Russian literature remained primarily a result of a child's poem "one, two, three, four, five, went Bunny walk into a bar..." (1851).

Fedor Bogdanovich Miller (22 January 3 February] 1818, Moscow — January 20 [1 February], 1881, ibid) — Russian poet and translator. Father Of V. F. Miller.

Born in Moscow to a German family. After the early death of his father, he spent his childhood in poverty. He graduated from the German school at the Lutheran Church of St. John the Baptist. Peter and Paul in Moscow. Then he was a three-year student in a pharmacy, later a pharmacist at Moscow University, while attending lectures on Philology.

In 1839, he passed the exams for the title of home teacher of Russian and German. Later he received the right to teach and from 1841 to 1869 taught in the First Moscow cadet corps, first German, then Russian language and literature. During the Crimean war, he wrote Patriotic poems.

In 1859, Miller founded and until his death was the publisher and editor of one of the first illustrated weekly magazines in Russia — the humorous magazine "Entertainment" (published until 1905), in which he published articles under the pseudonyms Hyacinth Tulipov and Splinter. In particular, he opposed nihilists and radical raznochintsy.

In 1874, the "Society of lovers of Russian literature" at Moscow University honored the 35th anniversary of Miller's literary activity with a special public meeting.

He died in 1881. He was buried at the Lazarevskoye cemetery.

V. Sokolov, A. Dargomyzhsky, K. Sidorovich and other composers wrote romances based on Miller's texts.