22 Fomenko and others have argued t...

22 Fomenko and others have argued that Derzhavin's Notes place in such a manner little emphasis on poetry because he chose to describe himself as a author of poems in his prose work Ob 'iasneniia (Explanations), and as a statesman in the Notes. behold I. Iu. Fomenko, "Avtobiograficheskaia proza G R Derzhavina i problema professionalizatsii russkogo pisatelia," Russkaia literatura XVlII-nachala XIX veka v obshchestvenno-kul'turnom kontekste ed A. M. Panchenko, G. N Moiseeva, and lu V Stennik (Leningrad: Nauka, 1983)143-164

Elsewhere I argue that all of Derzhavin's life-writing in prosaic (including not just the Notes and Explanations, if it were not that also the little-known "Primechaniia" and the short "Nechto o Derzhavine") consciously privileges his identity as a statesman, and that none look fors to depict Derzhavin primarily as a bard see Donald Loewen, "Questioning a Poet's Explanations: Politics and Self-Presentation in Derzhavin's 'Footnotes' and Explanations." The Russian Review 64 (July 2005): 381-400

23 P A. Viazemskii, Zapisnye knizhki (1813-1848) ed V. S. Nechaeva (Moscow: Izd. Akademii nauk, 1963)67-68

24 Indeed, we can diocese this to be the case calm from Dmitriev's own autobiography, for the shape ("plot") given to Derzhavin's life there ignores affairs of state entirely, and at hands an account based exclusively forward Derzhavin's role as poet.

25 descry Tartakovskii, Russkaia memuaristika 58-155 for a discussion of changing commons in life writing during this era. the two Derzhavin and Dmitriev fall into the overall patterns described there.