(3.10.1742 – 14.1.1791)
Knyazhnin Yakov Borisovich [3.10.1742 (or 1740), Pskov – 14.1.1791, St. Petersburg], playwright, poet, translator, member of the Russian Academy (1783). Of the nobility. From 1750 he studied at the Academic Gymnasium. From 1755 the Junker junior of the College of Livonian, Estland and Finnish Affairs, from 1757 the translator of the Chancellery from the buildings; in 1762 he transferred to military service [the secretary of the Adjutant General KG Razumovsky, from 1764 the secretary (in the rank of captain) with the duty adjutant general on duty]. In 1773 for the embezzlement of treasury money, the court sentenced him to death by hanging. Thanks to the intercession of Razumovsky, NI Panin, I. I. Betsky, the verdict was relaxed: Knyazhnin was demoted
The materials of the book are used: Sukhareva O. V. Who was who in Russia from Peter I to Paul I, Moscow, 2005