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Portrait of the writer, Mason Alexander Fedorovich Labzin in a blue caftan by Vladimir Borovikovsky

Portrait of the writer, Mason Alexander Fedorovich Labzin in a blue caftan by Vladimir Borovikovsky

Labzin Alexander Fedorovich, poet, publisher, translator, real state councilor.

Of the nobility. In 1776 he was placed in a noble school at the Moscow University, in 1778 transferred to the university, and in 1780 was promoted to students.

Collaborated in the “Evening Dawn” NI Novikov, drew the attention of Professor IG Schwartz University; attended Schwartz’s home lectures on the philosophy of history. Upon graduation, he entered an interpreter at a conference in the Moscow provincial government, from 1787 – an interpreter at Moscow University.

I got carried away with artistic translations. Was admitted to the Moscow Society of Martinists. In 1789 he was transferred by the censor of foreign periodicals to the Secret Expedition of the St. Petersburg Post Office.

On behalf of the Emperor Paul I, together with AA Vakhrushev, compiled the History of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem, for which he received the title of historian of the Order of Malta.

In 1799, in the rank of State Councilor, he was transferred to the College of Foreign Affairs. At the same time he was appointed conference secretary of the Academy of Arts. In 1804, in the rank of a valid State Councilor, he was appointed Director of the Department of the Navy, and in 1805 was appointed a member of the Admiralty Department. Remaining at the same time secretary of the Academy, he published many books of mystical content. In 1800 he founded the “Dying Sphinx” box.

Seeking to carry out the spiritual and Masonic enlightenment mission, Labzin translated a lot of mystic writers. The success of these works prompted him to undertake the publication of the “Christian magazine” Zionsky Vestnik. However, according to the presentation of Prince A. N. Golitsyn in September, the magazine was banned by the emperor. Labzin in his articles was skeptical about the ritual aspect of Orthodoxy. In December 1812, Labzin joined the Biblical Society, created on the idea of Golitsyn, and soon became its director. The patronage of Alexander I helped Labzin in 1816 to resume the journal Zionsky Vestnik. Literary works and numerous letters from Labzin had a wide resonance in society. In 1822, for a mocking offer to elect honorary amateurs of the Academy of Arts persons “even more close to the sovereign” than AA Arakcheev and VP Kochubei,

In 1794 he married the widow Anna Yevdokimovna Karamysheva, nee Yakovleva, a pupil of MM Kheraskov. Not having their children, Labzins raised two orphans: niece ES Mikulina and SA Mudrov.

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