Vladimir Titov was born on in the
selo of Noviki,
Spassky District,
Ryazan Oblast. He graduated from the Moscow University Noble Boarding School and the
Moscow State University and trained with well-known writers
Vladimir Odoevsky and
Stepan Shevyryov. From 1823 to 1828 he served at the chancery of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then in the Asian department. In his youth he was active in literature. With Odoevsky, Shevyryov,
Dmitry Venevitinov and others he participated at the philosophical circle
Lyubomudry, which existed from 1823 to 1825. He knew Pushkin,
Pyotr Vyazemsky,
Vasily Zhukovsky and many more of the leading writers. His fantastic novella
The Remote House on Vasilyevsky Island was published in the almanac
The Northern Flowers of 1829 (Северные цветы на 1829). As Tit Kosmokratov he also wrote
The Monastery of St. Brigit (Монастырь св. Бригиты), issued in the almanac
The Northern Flowers of 1829. Also, Titov is the author of the
three-volume novel about the
Russo-Turkish War from 1828 to 1829,
Wrongly Stories of Cicerone del K...o (Неправдоподобные рассказы чичероне дель К…о) (1837). Titov later served as General-Councilor of the
Danubian Principalities, and was an
envoy to Constantinople and
Stuttgart. From 1873 he commissioned the
Archaeographic Commission. He died on , in
Kharkov. == References ==