GLINKA, FEDOR NIKOLAYEVICH Russian poet and author, a cousin of the composer, was born at Smolensk in He was educated for the army, and served in the Austrian campaign of 1805. He then retired to his estate, but served again in the campaigns of 1312-14. For some time he commanded a regiment under Count Miloradovich, military gov ernor of St. Petersburg. Under suspicion of revolutionary tend encies he was, in 1820, banished to Petrozavodsk, but was after a time allowed to return to St. Petersburg. Glinka was an independ ent and original writer, whose work was never fully appreciated during his life-time. He is one of the few Russian poets who have chosen principally biblical subjects; he was something of a mystic, and his verse has been compared with that of Vaughan and Herbert.
His works include martial songs, the descriptive poem Kareliya (Carelia, or the Captivity of Martha Joanovna, 183o), and a metrical paraphrase of the book of Job. Some translations are published in C. T. Wilson's Russian Lyrics (1887).