Small biography of Garshin

Born: February 2, Veteran of the Russo-Turkish War, a combat officer. Russian classic, author of stories, stories, short stories and essays, works for children. Mother, Ekaterina Stepanovna. Akimova - a typical “sixties”, was interested in literature and politics, freely mastered German and French, had a huge impact on her son. His teacher was the leader of the revolutionary movement P.

to subsequently leave the Garshin’s mother and will accompany him in ... a link. This family drama was reflected in the health and attitude of the writer. Already the child Vsevolod Garshin was extremely nervous and impressionable, which contributed to too early mental development. Subsequently, he suffered from bouts of nervous disorder and voluntarily passed away.

Two senior brothers of the writer also committed suicide. Younger brother Evgeny M. Garshin is a teacher, writer, critic, public figure, publisher. Young Garshin studied at the St. Petersburg 7th gymnasium since the year, which was later transformed into the 1st Real School. Then he began to write, imitating that "Iliad", then the "notes of the hunter" of Ivan Turgenev. After the release in G., in the beginning of the essay "The true History of the Ensky Zemstvo Assembly", written in a satirical spirit.

Closing closer to the young artists, he wrote a number of articles on painting presented at art exhibitions. In connection with the war with the Ottoman Empire of the Armed Forces. Garshin voluntarily entered the Bolkhov Infantry Regiment. He participated in the Bulgarian campaign, was made from non-commissioned officers to the warrant officers "For Distinguishing in Affairs." In the battle of Auslara, he was wounded, treated in the hospital, then sent home.

Having received an annual vacation, he left for Petersburg with the intention of engaging in literary activities. At the end of the war, he was dismissed and became a freedom of the historical and philological faculty of St. Petersburg University .. The writer’s military impressions formed the basis of works written by Vsevolod Garshin during these years, among which the story “Four Days”, which immediately created fame, became a real literary debut.

In it and subsequent works, the author protested against war, extermination of man by man. A number of essays were written, where social evil and injustice were drawn already against the backdrop of peaceful life. Of these, the “incident” and “Nadezhda Nikolaevna” touched the theme of the “fallen” woman. The stories "Meeting" and "Artists" set the problem of choosing a path for the intelligentsia: enrichment or full deprivation of the path of service to the people.

Garshin did not accept the events associated with this very sharply. He became more and more obvious to the failure of the populist methods of revolutionary struggle. In the story "Night", a tragic attitude of this generation was expressed.

In the year, shocked by the death execution of a young revolutionary, Garshin fell ill mentally and was placed in a psychiatric hospital, where he was about two years old. Only in May, Vsevolod Garshin returns to St. Petersburg, restoring peace of mind. Publishes the essay "Petersburg letters", containing deep thoughts about St. Petersburg as the "spiritual homeland" of the Russian intelligentsia.

He enters the civil service and marries N. Zolotilova, who worked as a doctor. The writer considered this period the happiest in life, then from under his pen came his best story "Red Flower". But another severe depression comes: he is forced to leave the service, family quarrels between his wife and mother began all this led to a tragic outcome. Garshin committed suicide after a painful, sleepless night.

He left his apartment and rushed from the stairs into the flight. He was transported to the hospital of the Red Cross, where he soon fell into an unconscious state and no longer came out of it to death. Garshin legalized a special art form in literature - a short story, which was subsequently completely developed with Anton Chekhov. The plots of Garshin's novels are simple.

It is always built on one main motive, deployed according to a strictly logical plan. The composition of his stories, surprisingly finished, reaches almost geometric certainty. Lack of action, complex conflicts - characteristic of Garshin. Most of his works are written in the form of diaries, letters, confession. The number of actors is very limited. The drama of the action is replaced by Garshin with the drama of thought rotating in the enchanted circle of “damned questions”, the drama of the experiences, which are the main material for Garshin.

The Garshin manner is deeply realistic. His work is characterized by the accuracy of observation and the certainty of expressions of thought. He has little metaphors, comparisons, instead - a simple designation of objects and facts. A short, honed phrase, without subordinate sentences in descriptions. Garshin did not succeed in a wide coverage of social phenomena, as a more calm life to the writer of the generation, for whom the main need was to “endure” did not succeed.

He could not portray the big outside world, but the narrow "his".And this determined all the features of his artistic manner. He knew how to sharply feel and artistically embody social evil. The sore conscience of the repentant nobleman, not finding an effective exit, always beat at one point: the consciousness of responsibility for the evil reigning in the field of human relations, for the oppression of man by man - the main theme of Garshin.

The evil of the old serfdom and the evil of the emerging capitalist system equally fill the pages of his stories. From the consciousness of public injustice, his heroes are saved from the consciousness of responsibility for her, as he himself did, going to war, so that, if not to help the people, then at least divide his heavy fate with him ... This was a temporary salvation from the torment of conscience, the redemption of the repentant nobleman.

But this was not a resolution of a social problem. The writer did not know the exit. And therefore, all his work is imbued with deep pessimism. Detailed biography.