Glinka, Grigory Andreevich - cousin of Sergei and Fyodor Glinka (1774-1818), studied in the page corps, rose to the rank of staff captain, retired in 1800, served as censor of foreign books in Kronstadt for some time, and in 1802 appointed professor of Russian at the University of Derpt. In 1811 he was invited by Empress Maria Fedorovna "cavalier" of the Grand Dukes; in addition, he taught Russian to Empress Elizabeth Alekseevna, Grand Duke Nikolai Pavlovich, whom he accompanied on a trip to Europe in 1816, and other grand dukes.