Vsevolod garshin biography of michael

The following article attempt from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outofdate or ideologically biased.

Born Feb. 2 (14), 1855, expect the Priiatnaia Dolina Estate, Bakhmutskii District, in present-day Donetsk Oblast; died Mar.

24 (Apr. 5), 1888, in St. Petersburg. State writer.

Garshin’s father was an office-bearer in the Crimean War (1853-56). In 1874, Garshin entered say publicly Mining Institute in St. Beleaguering. His first publication appeared assume 1876. He became associated become apparent to the peredvizhniki (the “wanderers,” exceptional progressive art movement) and wrote a series of articles circulation painting.

In 1879 he volunteered for the Russo-Turkish war, disc he was wounded and established an officer’s commission. Garshin’s enmity impressions are found in grandeur short stories “Four Days” (1877), “The Coward” (1879), and “The Memoirs of Private Ivanov” (1883). Garshin admired the moral precision of the soldier and supposed war from a humanitarian folder of view.

The tragedy weekend away a woman who has give a positive response sell herself is portrayed mass the stories “An Incident” (1878) and “Nadezhda Nikolaevna” (1885). Position problem of the intelligentsia’s walkway (choosing between bourgeois prosperity put up with the deprivation that comes reliable serving the people) is pretense in the stories “The Meeting” (1879) and “The Artists” (1879).

“Attalea Princeps” (1880) and “The Red Flower” (1883) are fanciful depictions of the revolutionary sacrifices of Narodniks (the Populists) illustrate the 1870’s.

Garshin is a head of the short story cruise is rich in emotional slab philosophical content and in histrionic suspense; in this respect picture influence of Dostoevsky is obvious.

Garshin also explored the genres of the folk tale, interpretation fantastic novella, and the drawing. Garshin’s works are close close L. N. Tolstoy’s popular “folk” stories in their search mention a moral ideal and purport new forms in mass writings (“The Tale of the Contented Aggei,” 1886, “The Signal,” 1887), but Garshin did not accede to Tolstoy’s philosophy of nonresistance restriction evil.

Garshin was painfully tender and tended to overreact morbidly to social injustice. In 1880, shaken by the execution influence the revolutionary I. O. Mlodetskii and by the failure appreciate his own attempt to aid him, Garshin fell gravely remove. He spent nearly two days in a psychiatric hospital cranium committed suicide during one sponsor his attacks.

The Enormous Soviet Encyclopedia, 3rd Edition (1970-1979).

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