Literature Nekrasov Biography

The Pushkin map of Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov Nikolai Nekrasov was born on December 10 in the small town of Nemirov, Vinnitsa district of the Podolsk province. His father Alexei Nekrasov came from the family of once rich Yaroslavl nobles, was an army officer, and his mother Elena Zakrevskaya was the daughter of a sampler from the Kherson province. Parents were against the marriage of a beautiful and educated girl with a military man who was poor at that time, so the young were married in a year without their blessing.

The father of the future poet turned out to be a harsh and despotic man, including in relation to a soft and shy wife. The painful atmosphere that reigned in the family had an influence on Nekrasov’s work: in his works, the metaphorical images of parents often appeared. The early childhood of Nikolai passed in the family estate of his father - the village of Greshnevo by the Yaroslavl province, where the family moved after the resignation of Alexei Nekrasov from the army.

A close relationship between a boy and his mother developed: she was for him the best friend and first teacher, instilled in him love for the Russian language and literary word. In the year, Nekrasov turned 11 years old, and he entered the gymnasium, where he studied to the fifth grade. The study was difficult for him, relations with the gymnasium authorities did not get along-in particular, because of the caustic satirical poems that he began to compose at 16 years old.

Therefore, in the year, Nekrasov went to St. Petersburg, where, according to his father, he was supposed to enter the military service. In the cultural capital, the young man met his countryman - Andrei Glusitsky, who told the poet about the delights of study in a higher educational institution. Encouraged by Nekrasov, contrary to the instructions of his father, decides to enter the philological faculty of St.

Petersburg University. However, an ambitious guy fills up the entrance exam, earns the status of a freedom of the year. As a student, Nikolai Nekrasov suffered a terrible need. Terrible deprivations not only prepared the future writer for adulthood, but also hardened his character. Over time, Nekrasov’s affairs began to improve. By the beginning of the 10ths, he earned a living by composing poems and fairy tales, then published in the form of popular publications, published small articles in the Literary Gazeta and the literary addition to the Russian Disabled, gave private lessons and composed plays for the Alexandrinsky Theater.

In the year, due to his own savings, Nekrasov released his first poetic collection “Dreams and Sounds”, which failed. After that, Nikolai Nekrasov decides to move away from poems and do prose, writes novels and stories. The writer is also engaged in the publication of some almanacs. The most successful almanac was the “Petersburg collection” in - Nekrasov becomes the publisher and editor of the magazine “Contemporary”, in which the best writers of that time worked.

Working in a contemporary, Nekrasov releases several collections of his poems. The works "Peasant Children", "Corbines" bring him wide fame. In the 10ths, Nekrasov collaborates with the magazine "Domestic Notes", and in the year, after the closure of the magazine "Contemporary", takes it from the publisher Kraevsky for rent. The writer's life has been associated with this magazine.

At the same time, Nekrasov writes the epic poem “To whom to live well in Rus'” Work on the poem took almost 14 years from Nekrasov. But even during this period, he did not manage to fully realize his plan: a serious illness that had cooked the writer to bed prevented. The poems “Russian Women”, “Grandpa” were also written - poems about the Decembrists and their wives, some more satirical works, the top of which was the poem “Contemporaries” Nekrasov wrote about the suffering and grief of the Russian people, about the complex life of the peasantry.

He also introduced a lot to Russian literature, in particular, in his works he used simple Russian conversational speech. This, of course, showed the wealth of the Russian language, which came from the people. In verses, he first began to combine satire, lyrics and elegiac motifs. In short, the poet’s work has made an invaluable contribution to the development of Russian classical poetry and literature in general.

In the city of Nikolai Alekseevich seriously fell ill. The disease shows him to bed for the last two years of his life. During the illness of Nekrasov, both famous people and ordinary people were very actively supported, and this helped to live and create Nikolai Alekseevich in the last years of his life. Nekrasov died on December 27, despite severe frost, a crowd of several thousand people, escorted the poet to the Novodevichy cemetery in St.

Petersburg. Nekrasov’s funeral was the first case of popular reverence for the writer's memory. The name of Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov will forever remain in the memory of descendants as an example of high citizenship and love for his homeland, for his people. The poet himself said about this with verses: who, serving the great goals of the century, gives his life entirely.