prince Vladimir Bariatinsky

Grandson of Lieutenant General, Adjutant General Prince Anatoly Ivanovich Baryatinsky (1821-1881), cousin of the Viceroy of the Caucasus, Field Marshal Prince Alexander Ivanovich Baryatinsky (1815-1879), son of the Infantry General, Adjutant General, who was under Empress Maria Feodorovna Prince Vladimir Anatolyevich Baryatinsky (1843-1914).

After graduating from the Naval Cadet Corps (1893), Baryatinsky served in the Guards crew for several years, and retired with the rank of lieutenant in 1904. He began his literary activity in 1896 in Prince Ukhtomsky's St. Petersburg Vedomosti, where he published articles about the theater and stories. Then he began to publish in Novoye Vremya, under the pseudonym "Baron On dit", satirical essays on high society life, published in a separate edition under the title "Descendants" (1897, 2nd ed. 1899) and "Lolo and Lala" (1899). In 1896-1897 he staged poetic translations of Armand Sylvester's plays Izeil and Griselda on the stage of a literary art circle.

In 1899 he wrote the historical play In the Days of Peter. At the same time, he began publishing the Northern Courier newspaper, which had great success, but soon (in December 1900) was closed "for a harmful direction", where, among other things, he published journalistic articles called Thoughts and Notes (separate ed. 1901) .

In 1901, together with his wife, actress L. B. Yavorskaya, he became the head of the New Theatre, on the stage of which he staged the comedies Rolls, Nablotsky's Career (1901), The Last Ivanov (1902), Dance of Life (1903), the historical drama The Bright Tsar (1904), a verse translation of Shakespeare's The Tempest (1901).

Outstanding success fell to the share of the "Perekatov" and "Nablotsky's Career" imbued with a democratic tendency. "Dance of Life" for 4 months was more than 100 times. In "Nouvelle Revue" and other collections, Baryatinsky placed a number of translations from Russian poets into French.

After the October Revolution in exile in Berlin, then in Paris. He was published in emigrant publications, most actively in the Parisian newspaper Latest News (over 100 stories and essays from Russian and French history and memoirs Burnt Out Fires, also published as a separate edition - Paris, 1934).