Biography of Chorny

About the author of Sasha Black real name - Alexander Mikhailovich Glickberg - Russian journalist, prose writer and poet, author of satirical feuilletons.

Sasha was born on October 1 in Odessa in a wealthy family of Jews. The father worked as a traveling representative and pharmacist of the chemical company, and the mother came from a merchant family, which was engaged in an iron bold trade. Due to the at that time, the Black Limen Limit for training from Jewish families was forced to study at home for some time.

Wanting to give his son a good and high -quality education, his parents baptized him and sent him to study in a white -church gymnasium. However, Sasha did not justify their hopes, considering that it was too late to receive knowledge at his age, and chose to escape from an educational institution to St. Petersburg, where he began to wander and begging on the streets.

Several times he tried to contact his parents and ask them for help, but his letters were ignored. After some time, they wrote about the boy in the newspapers, and the local official decided to help him, sheltering at home. It is noteworthy that it was this philanthropist that subsequently had a tremendous influence on the literary work of the ward. In the year, Black made another unsuccessful attempt to get an education by entering the Zhytomyr gymnasium.

Sasha Black: the literary debut of the black took place in the beginning of the summer of the year, when he printed the first story in the Zhytomyr newspaper - “Resoner Diary”, the plot of which was inspired by the recent service in the training team and the subsequent service at Novosolinsky Customs. He signed this work as "in itself." Further, he actively shows his talent as a satirist poet.

Its popularity is growing, and readers of newspapers and magazines, picking up a new number, first of all view his poems. The topicality and severity of his poetic satire led to the closure of one of the magazines in which he was printed, as well as the introduction of a ban on one of his collections. Fleeing from the persecution of censors, Sasha, along with his wife, hurriedly emigrated to Germany, where he continued his studies at the University of Heidelberg.

Two years later, he returned to the northern capital and began to cooperate with the Satyrikon magazine and other major publications. Thanks to the resulting education and improvement of writing skills, Black has become one of the most popular poets of his time, whose poetry readers taught by heart. In addition to the satire, Sasha tried his strength in writing books for children, lyrical miniature and translations from German.

The most popular works of the author are the following: “33 best humorous stories”; "Diary of Fox Mickey"; "Humorous stories." The service in the infirmary during the First World War made an indelible impression on the black, almost depriving his mind. The writer was very helped by a faithful and loving wife, as well as keeping a literary diary, which later became the basis for the poetry cycle "War".

After the October Revolution, the poet leaves Russia and lives first in Lithuania, and then moves to Germany and France. In Sasha’s work, significant changes also occur: from the topical poetic satire, he is increasingly moving to children's stories and other prose. In the year, Black, along with his beloved wife, moved to a small house in the southern part of France.

It was there that he died at the end of the summer of the year from a heart attack after he helped the neighbors cope with the fire. Similar authors.