Novikova biography briefly

Born: January 1, Ilkovo, the Russian Empire died: January 10, was born on January 1 13 of the year in the family of a landowner in the village of Ilkov, now Mtsensky district of the Oryol region. The Novikov family was very fond of Pushkin’s work, the verses of the great poet surrounded the future writer from childhood. He graduated from the Moscow Agricultural Institute worked at the Kyiv Agronomic Laboratory -, then the secretary of the Kyiv agriculture society, simultaneously edited the magazine "Agriculture" - he was engaged in literature since the year, printed in periodicals.

The first book was published in the year. In years, he visited Western Europe several times. Novikov performed in the capital's ... Symbolist magazines Golden Fleece, was considered one of the promising young prose writers. The fame of Novikov brought a novel about the youth “between the two dawns”, written in realistic traditions. Once, after his very first works, Ivan Alekseevich Novikov had the honor to talk with Leo Tolstoy, who asked with lively interest about the works, expressed his professional opinion, and gave recommendations.

Also, A. Chekhov was interested in the work of the young writer, who also talked with Novikov for a long time and admired his works. He moved to Moscow in the year. In years, he turned to the genre of a historical novel. His novels “Pushkin in Mikhailovsky” and “Pushkin in the South” were most popular were most popular, the latter was written in evacuation in Kamensk-Uralsky. The fee from the Pushkin evenings spent on Pushkin in the South was aimed at building the Alexander Pushkin combat fighter, which was piloted by the future hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Gorokhov, who shot down 9 enemy aircraft on this fighter.

The novels were highly appreciated by I. Stalin, who defended Novikov from the elaborate campaign in the press.

Subsequently, Novikov revised both novels and united them under the name “Pushkin in exile”, after which the dilogy was reprinted repeatedly. The assessment of “Pushkin in exile” is ambiguous: criticism noted both well -awards from the biography of the poet and psychologically interesting episodes, as well as the patterned images and the “beautifulness” of the syllable A. Belinkov, "Yuri Tynyanov." Other writings of Novikov are also devoted to Pushkin: works for children, a play, a movie scene and a libretto of the opera.

He carried out the poetic translation of “Words about Igor’s Regiment”, “Zadonshchina”, the Buryat epic Alamzhi-Mergen, a well-known fake of Czech folklore-“Kraledworsky manuscript”. Novikov died on January 10 of the year. Detailed biography.