Druzhinin biography briefly
Born: October 8, noble origin. He received a home education, studied in a Page Corps-he served in the Life Guards of the Finnish regiment and became close to his colleague P. Fedotov, later a famous artist. Druzhinin headed the regimental library and read a lot. By poor health and desire to devote himself to literature, in January, he resigned as a second lieutenant and entered the office of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of the Ministry of Economic Council in February.
C published his stories, novels, novels in the magazine “Contemporary”, later ... Essays on the current periodicals and literary and critical articles. In November, he was brought out of the state without a salary; Since January, retired college assessor. In the editorial circle of “Contemporary”, from the end of the X to the end of the x years, Druzhinin was close to D. Grigorovich, I.
Turgenev and especially with P. Annenkov and V. Botkin, with whom he was brought close to not only literary and aesthetic preferences, but also everyday entertainment. Under the noticeable influence of Druzhinin and his theory of “pure art” in - was L. Since the beginning of the 10ths, Druzhinin, in addition to “Contemporary”, was close to the circle of O. Senkovsky’s magazine “Reading Library”.
In Druzhinin, at the invitation of the publisher "Library for Reading," V. P? Plot was headed by the magazine. In Druzhinin, he transmitted editing A. Pisemsky, who had already been his co -editor by that time. He collaborated in the magazines "Domestic Notes", "Iskra", "Russian Bulletin" and newspapers "St. Petersburg Vedomosti", "Northern Bee". In the “Horticulture Journal”, he placed the article “Notes on Horticulture in the St.
Petersburg province”, i.e. in the journal “Century” in was the co-editor P. in November at dinner by Count G. Kushelev-Bezborodko Druzhinin proposed to create a literary fund on the English Literary Fund. On the same topic, he published an article “Several assumptions on the construction of the Russian Literary Fund for benefits to the needy individuals of a scientist and literary circle” “Library for reading”, that is, organized thanks to the perseverance of Druzhinin in St.
Petersburg, a society for benefits to needing writers and scientists lasted about 60 years. He died of consumption. Death and funeral passed almost unnecessary; Druzhinin’s merits to Russian literature were noted by N. Turgenev in the memorial speech “Russian disabled”, on February 18.
The story attracted the benevolent attention of the public and criticism. It was perceived as a work of a “natural school”, written in the spirit of Georges Sandism. In the description of female love, I. The image of the energetic practitioner of Konstantin Saks was the precursor of I. anticipes the images of Stolz from I. Goncharov’s novel “Oblomov” and Kalinovich from the novel “Thousand Souls” A.
The story “Lola Montes”, like the entire “Illustrated Almanac” by N. Nekrasov St. Petersburg, was prohibited by censorship. Detailed biography.