Biography and Korolenko

Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich - Born Korolenko in the family of a county judge, began to study in the Polish boarding house, and graduated from the Rivne real gymnasium. In G. But the need forced Korolenko to leave the teaching and switch to the position of the "intelligent proletarian." In the year, he moves to Moscow and enters the Petrovsky agricultural and forest now Timiryazevo Academy.

In the year he was expelled from the academy for a year and sent to exile, which was then replaced by a supervised "residence" in Kronstadt. In the year, on the denunciation of the royal gendarmerie agent, Korolenko was arrested. Over the next six years, he was in prisons, at stages, in exile. In the same year, the story of Korolenko “Episodes from the life of the seeker” appeared in the St.

Petersburg magazine. While in the Vyshnevolotsky political prison, he writes the story “A wonderful” manuscript spread in the lists, without the author’s knowledge of the story was printed in the year in London, in Russia - only in the year under the title “Barling”. Korolenko defended the ideals of man associated with honor, dignity, freedom, justice, mercy with his whole fate and creativity.

For this, he suffered from the tsarist government, for this, the revolutionary converters did not complain to him later, which did not put his ideals in a penny. In any conditions, remaining an unshakable coatman for the people and the enemy of any kind of violence, Korolenko warned that the revolutionary cataclysms in Russia can give rise to chaos, anarchy and death.

For this, Lenin scolded him with a “miserable bourgeois” and threatened him with a prison. And if Maxim Gorky called Korolenko “the ideal way of the Russian writer”, and A. Amphitheatrov - “the mirror of Russian conscience”, then A. Lunacharsky called the “beautiful Don Quixote” with a grin. Korolenko first visited Nizhny Novgorod in the year, when he followed the escort to Perm and further to Tomsk.

In the year, he, devoid of residence in the capitals, returning from exile, decided to stay in Nizhny Novgorod. Here he had no friends or acquaintances, and here he was destined to live eleven years: he happened to change many apartments, sit in a prison, work as a cashier in a shipping company, go to professional literary activity and, ultimately, become one of the outstanding Nizhny Novgorod.

Korolenko did not very high appreciated the cultural level of the lower. He noted the provincial and indifference of its inhabitants in everything that did not concern profit. But he was delighted with Nizhny Novgorod beauties: “In Nizhny Novgorod, V. Korolenko developed as a writer - a publicist who received all -Russian fame. His famous works “The river plays”, “In a bad society”, “Makar's dream”, “Blind musician” and others were written here.

Here he published over a hundred newspaper and journal essays scourging the bureaucracy. Korolenko walked around almost the entire Nizhny Novgorod province, knew popular sorrows. The result was his famous essays about the work and life of the Pavlovskiyers, about the terrible hunger in Lukoyanovsky district and many other articles that became documentary evidence of the past era.

All this earned V. Korolenko such an authority among Nizhny Novgorod that he became a legend man, in the villages of the province, a legend about the “Korolenka -Korolevich” for a long time, which would protect and feed offended and hungry people. According to A. Gorky, Korolenko became “the central figure of the cultural life of the city, as a magnet attracted to himself, a circle of progressively -minded intelligentsia was formed around him, called the“ society of sober philosophers ”, where the urgent issues of the economic and cultural life of the Nizhny Novgorod Territory were actively discussed.

Leaving the year from Nizhny to Petersburg, Korolenko noted that the city gave him a lot: "I will never cross out from my life Nizhny Novgorod strip." Sources of Fortunates N. Korolenko in Nizhny Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod Territory: facts, events, people. Novgorod, Nizhny Novgorod collection of memory of Vl. Novgorod: Publishing House - Nizhgubsoiuza, Shiyan L.

Korolenko time in the Nizhny Novgorod Territory.

Kutukova M. Korolenko V. Pavlovsky essays.