Antony Pogorelsky

During the Patriotic War of 1812 (invasion of Napoleon Bonaparte) he served in the acting army as a volunteer.

After retirement he settled in Petersburg and took care of upbringing and education of his nephew Aleksey.

During that period Perovsky came to be one of the most active defenders of Alexander Pushkin, then a beginning poet.

Antony Pogorelsky's set of stories Dvoinik (The Double, or My Evenings in Little Russia) (1828) was closely related to the German fantastic tradition (Serapion Brothers by Hoffman) and anticipated the famous Evenings on a Farm Near Dikanka by Nikolai Gogol and Russian Nights by Vladimir Odoevsky.

His novel Monastyrka, a “moral-descriptive novel” combining both sentimental and romantic elements was very well accepted by public and critics.