Biography N with Leskov

The latest news biography of Nikolai Leskov is called the ancestor of the Russian tale - in this regard, the writer stood on a par with Nikolai Gogol. The author became famous as a publicist with a sharp, denouncing the vices of society with a pen. And later, he surprised his colleagues with knowledge of psychology, morals and customs of the people of his native country.

Leskov was born in the village of Gorokhovo, Oryol province. The writer’s father, Semyon Dmitrievich, was a native of an old spiritual family - his grandfather and father served as priests at a church in the village of fishing lines from here and surname. The writer Nikolai Leskov and the parent of the future writer graduated from the seminary, but then worked in the Oryol Criminal Chamber.

He was distinguished by the great talent of an investigator, capable of unraveling even the most difficult thing, for which he quickly climbed the service stairs and received a noble title. Mom Maria Petrovna came from the Moscow nobility. In the Leskov family, which settled in the administrative center of the province, five children and three daughters and three sons were growing up, Nikolai was the eldest.

When the boy was 8 years old, his father greatly quarreled with his superiors and, grabbing the family, retired to the village of Panino, where he engaged in agriculture - he plowed, sowed, looked after the garden. Nikolai Leskov in his youth with his studies at young Koli, the relationship was disgusting. For five years, the boy studied at the Oryol gymnasium, and in the end he had in his hands a certificate of ending of only two classes.

Leskov’s biographers blame this system of education of those times, which repulsed the desire to comprehend science with cramming and inertness. Especially in such extraordinary, creative personalities as Kolya Leskov. Nikolai had to go to work. Father attached the offspring to the criminal chamber by the employees, and a year later he died of cholera. At the same time, another grief fell on the Leskov family - a house with all the property burned to the ground.

Sketch of the portrait of Nikolai Leskov. Ilya Repin Young Nikolai went to get acquainted with the world. On his own request, the young man was transferred to the state ward to Kyiv, where his uncle lived and professed at the university. In the Ukrainian capital, Leskov plunged into an interesting, eventful life - he was carried away by languages, literature, philosophy, sat at a desk as a volunteer at the university, spun in circles of sectarians and Old Believers.

The life experience of the future writer enriched the work of another uncle. British husband Mom's sister called his nephew to his company Skott and Wilkens, the position suggested long and frequent business trips throughout Russia. This time the writer called the best in his biography. Literature the idea of ​​devoting the life of a word to Leskov has long visited the art.

For the first time, the young man thought about the writer's field, kneading in Russian expanses with tasks from the company "Skott and Wilkens" - the trips gave bright events and types of people who asked for paper. Nikolai Semenovich took the first steps in literature as a publicist. He wrote the articles “On the Anger of the Day” in St. Petersburg and Kyiv newspapers, criticism in corruption fell upon officials and police doctors.

The success of the publications was grandiose, several official investigations were brought up. The writer Nikolai Leskov test of the pen as an author of art works happened only at 32 - Nikolai Leskov wrote the story “Life of one woman” today we know it as “Amur in the Lapoks”, which was received by readers of the journal “Library for Reading”. From the first works of the writer, they started talking as a master who could brightly convey female images with a tragic fate.

And all because after the first story, the brilliant, soulful and complex essays “Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensky district” and “Warrior” came out. Leskov skillfully wove individual humor and sarcasm into the presented dark strip of life, demonstrating a unique style, which was later recognized as a variety of ts. Since the year, the writer began to create plays for theaters.

One of the popular is the “Wenter”. Leskov loudly declared himself as a novelist. In the books “There is nowhere”, “Walked”, “On Knives” he ridiculed revolutionaries and nihilists, declaring Russia's unpreparedness to radical changes. Maxim Gorky gave such an assessment of the writer’s work after reading the novel “On the Knives”: “... After the evil novel“ On the Knives ”, Leskov’s literary work immediately becomes a bright painting or, rather, icon painting, he begins to create an iconostas of its saints and righteous for Russia.” After the release of the novels criticizing revolutionary democrats, the editors of the magazines arranged a boycott Leskov.

Only Mikhail Katkov, who heads the “Russian Bulletin”, did not refuse to cooperate with the writer, but it was impossible to work with this writer - mercilessly rules of manuscript. The books of Nikolai Leskov with the next work, which entered the treasury of his native literature, was the legend of the masters of the weapon’s weapon affair. In it, Leskov’s unique style shook with new faces, the author poured original neologisms, layered events at each other, creating a complex frame.

They started talking about Nikolai Semenovich as a strong writer.In the X years, the writer was going through difficult times. The Ministry of Education put Leskov to the position of appraiser of new books - he decided whether to skip publications to the reader or not, and received a meager salary for this. In addition, the next story “The Beried Wanderer” was rejected by all editors, including Katkov.

Nikolai Leskov’s novel “The Enchanted Wanderer” The writer conceived this work as an alternative to the traditional genre of Roman. The story combined unrelated plots, and they are not finished. In the future, the author turned to the creation of idealized characters. A collection of stories “Righteous” came out of his pen, which included the sketches “Man on the watch”, “Figure” and others.

The writer introduced straightforward conscientious people, claiming that he had met everyone on his life path. However, critics and colleagues accepted work with sarcasm. In the X years, the righteous has acquired religious features - Leskov wrote about the heroes of early Christianity. The monument to Nikolai Leskov at the sunset of life Nikolai Semenovich again turned to the exposure of officials, military, representatives of the church, giving literature the works “Beast”, “Tuplica Artist”, “Scared”.

And it was at this time that Leskov wrote stories for children's reading, which were gladly taken by editors of magazines. Among the geniuses of literature, famous later, there were faithful fans of Nikolai Leskov. Leo Tolstoy considered the nugget from the Oryol hinterland the “most Russian writer”, and Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov elevated a man to the rank of his mentors.

Personal life, by the standards of the 19th century, the personal life of Nikolai Semenovich was unsuccessfully.

The writer managed to go down the aisle twice, and the second time with a living first wife. Nikolai Leskov and Olga Smirnova Leskov married early, at 22 years old. Olga Smirnova, the heiress of the Kyiv entrepreneur, became the chosen one. In this marriage, the daughter Vera and the son of Mitya, who died still little. The wife suffered from a mental disorder and was later often treated in St.

Petersburg Clinic of St. Nicholas. Nikolai Semenovich, in fact, lost his wife and decided to enter into a civil marriage with Ekaterina Bublova, who has been boring for several years. In the year, Leskov became his father for the third time - the son Andrei was born. On this line, the future celebrity of ballet Tatyana Leskova, a great -grandson of the author of the “enchanted wanderer”, was born in this line.

But Nikolai Semenovich did not get along with his second wife, after 11 years the couple parted. Nikolai Leskov and Ekaterina Bubnova Leskov were known as an ideological vegetarian, believed that animals could not be killed for food. The man published an article in which he divided Veganov into two camps - those who eat meat, observing a peculiar post, and those who regret innocent living beings.

He attributed himself to the latter. The writer urged to create a table book for Russian like -minded people, which would include “green” recipes from products available to Russians. And such an publication appeared in the year. The death of Nikolai Leskov suffered from asthma all his life, in recent years the disease has become aggravated, suffocation of suffocation began to happen more and more often.

The grave of Nikolai Leskov on February 21 on March 5, according to the new style of the year, the writer failed to cope with the exacerbation of the disease. Bibliography - "Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk district" - "nowhere."