The best biography of Leskov

Video about the life and work of N. Leskov Leskov N. Leskov Nikolai Semenovich [] - the Russian writer -ethnographer was born on February 16 according to the old style - on February 4 in the village of Gorokhovo, the Oryol province, where his mother was visiting with wealthy relatives, his grandmother also lived in the maternal line. The Leskov family along the paternal line came from the clergy: the grandfather of Nikolai Leskova Dmitry Leskov, his father, grandfather and great -grandfather were priests in the village of Fishing Court of the Oryol province.

From the name of the village of fishing line and the generic name of Leskov was formed. The father of Nikolai Leskov, Semen Dmitrievich, served as a noble assessor of the Oryol Chamber of the Criminal Court, where he received the nobility. Mother, Marya Petrovna Alferieva, belonged to the noble family of the Oryol province. In Gorokhov - in the house of insurance, relatives of Nikolai Leskov on the maternal side - he lived up to 8 years.

Nikolai had six cousins ​​and sisters. For children, Russian and German teachers and French were taken. Nicholas, gifted with great abilities than his cousins, and more time in his studies, did not take away and, at the request of the future writer, the grandmother wrote him to his father so that he would take her son. Nikolai began to live with his parents in Orel - in the house on the third noble street.

Soon the family moved to the estate of Panyino Panin Khutor. Nikolai's father himself sowed, looked after the garden and the mill. At ten, Nikolai was sent to study at the Oryol provincial gymnasium. After five years of study, the gifted and easily studied Nikolai Leskov instead of the certificate received a certificate, as he refused the re -explication to the fourth grade.

Further training has become impossible.

The father of Nikolai managed to attach him to the Oryol Criminal Chamber by one of the scribes. At seventeen and a half years, Leskov was determined by the assistant to the head of the Oryol Criminal Chamber. In the same, the father of Leskov died and helped in the arrangement of the future fate of Nikolai his relative - the husband of the aunt on the maternal line, the famous professor of Kyiv University and the practitioner therapist S.

Alferiev - in the year Nikolai Leskov moved to him to Kyiv and was determined to the Kyiv Treasury Chamber as an assistant to the head of the Revisy Department of the Revisy Department. Suddenly for relatives, and despite the advice, Nikolai Leskov decides to marry. The chosen one was the daughter of a wealthy Kyiv businessman. Over the years, the difference in tastes and interests manifested more and more among the spouses.

Relations were especially complicated after the death of the first -born Leskov - Mitya. In the beginning of the x, the marriage of Leskov actually broke up. In the year, Leskov was promoted to Kolesie registrars, in the same year he was appointed to the position of ceremony, and in the year Leskov was promoted to provincial secretaries. In the year he moved to the service agent in the private company Skott and Wilkins, headed by A.

Skott, the Englishman, who married a aunt Leskov, and managing the estates of Naryshkin and Count Perovsky. In their cases, Leskov constantly made trips that gave him a huge supply of observations. Vengerova “Nikolai Semenovich Leskov” “Soon after the Crimean War, I infected the then fashionable heresy, for which I later condemned myself, that is, I threw a fairly successfully starting state service and went to serve in one of the newly formed trading companies at that time.

The owners of the case, in which I settled down, were the British. They were still inexperienced and spent capital brought here with stupid self -confidence. Of the Russians, I was only me. Three -year wanderings in Russia served as the reason that Nikolai Leskov was engaged in writing. At the beginning of his literary activity, the years Nikolai Leskov was published under the pseudonym M.

Perevetov, Protozanov, Freeschits, Holy. Castorsky, psalmist, a watch lover, a man from the crowd. In the year, Nikolai Leskov moves to St. Petersburg. In April, the first article “Essays on Vinokurant Industry” was published in the “Domestic Notes”. In May, in the converted newspaper North Bee, who considered Leskov one of the most significant employees, under the pseudonym Stebnitsky, he publishes an acute article about the fire in Apraxin and Shchukin yards.

The article accused the arsonists, to whom the people's rumor attributed to the rebels-nihilists, and the government that was not able to neither extinguish the fire or catch the criminals. Rumor has spread that Leskov connects Petersburg fires with the revolutionary aspirations of students and, despite the writer’s public explanations, the name of Leskov became the subject of insulting suspicions.

Having gone abroad, he began to write the novel “There is nowhere”, in which he reflected the movement of the 10ths in a negative light. The first chapters of the novel were printed in January in the “Reading Library” and created unflattering fame to the author, so D. Pisarev wrote: “Will there now be in Russia, except for the“ Russian Herald ”, at least one magazine that would dare to print on his pages something emerging from the pen of Stebnitsky and signed by his surname?Will there be at least one honest writer in Russia who will be so careless and indifferent to his reputation that he will agree to work in a journal adorning himself with stories and novels of Stebnitsky?

In the early xs, Leskov was published in the “Historical messenger”, from the middle of the 10ths it became an employee of “Russian Thought” and “Week”, in the X -year is published in “Bulletin of Europe” in the year Nikolai Semenovich Leskov was appointed a member of the educational department of the Committee of the Ministry of Education; The main function of the department was "Consideration of the books published for the people." In the year, thanks to the positive feedback of Empress Maria Alexandrovna about the novel “Soboryans”, he was appointed a member of the educational department of the Ministry of State Property.

In the year, Leskov left the Ministry of State Property, and in it was dismissed without petition from the Ministry of Education. The resignation, which gave him independence, accepted with joy. Nikolai Semenovich Leskov died on March 5 according to the old style - February 21 in St. Petersburg, from the next attack of asthma, which tormented him for the last five years of his life.