Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich - poet, writer, journalist. A man who has become a legend during his lifetime. Events from the biography of this extraordinary personality are reflected in famous works. Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich is considered to be a classic of the memoir genre.
Biography
In order to understand what this writer was, you should read his books. He described a life full of amazing adventures, events and observations in the works My Wanderings, Moscow and Muscovites. Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich, before devoting himself to journalism, traveled to many cities, managed to work as a hoover, and a worker, and a herder, and a soldier, and even an actor. The article presents interesting facts from the biography of Gilyarovsky, about which he told in his works. But first, you should name the main dates in life.
Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich was born in 1855 in the Vologda province. He began to write poetry from high school times. At sixteen he ran away from home, walked from Kostroma to Rybinsk. Gilyarovsky served in the Caucasus during the Russo-Turkish War. Changed several professions. He came to Moscow in 1881, where he took up literary work.
In 1935, after a long, bright, unusual path, Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky passed away. Books by this author:
- "Slum people."
- "In the homeland of Gogol."
- "My wanderings."
- "Moscow and Muscovites."
- "Friends and meetings."
Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich, whose biography is reflected in a fascinating memoirs prose, is a writer whose names are streets in Moscow, Vologda and Tambov. A fiction writer and reporter was buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.
Uncle Gilyay
So called the writer friends and colleagues. Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich possessed indomitable energy and extraordinary industriousness. At the same time, he was known as an extremely kind, sociable person. The doors of his house were always open. Chekhov, Tolstoy, Kuprin and many other literary figures visited him. Gilyarovsky had a rather colorful appearance. One of the Cossacks Repin wrote from him and sculpted the figure of Taras Bulba Andreev.
Gilyarovsky is known today primarily thanks to books devoted to the life of the Moscow “bottom”. Residents of Khitrovka and other unreliable areas were very fond of a man with heroic strength and unlimited kindness. At the end of the nineteenth century, there was hardly a Muscovite who had not heard of Uncle Gilyay. Surprisingly, this man was a welcome guest both at dinner parties and at the thieves' diner in the dens of Tishinka. The "King of Reporters" has become a living attraction of the capital. One writer once said: “It is easier to imagine Moscow without the Tsar Bell than without Gilyarovsky.
Childhood
The book My Wanderings begins with a description of the writer’s early years. Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich was the son of a bailiff. The future reporter lost his mother early. The stepmother fell in love with Vladimir, as his own son. And in the first year she began to teach stepson to the French language and instill in him secular manners. Although Vladimir liked to read, he preferred circus, fishing and all kinds of adventures to teaching. Several times a negligent schoolboy was left in the second year. And having matured a little, Gilyarovsky completely ran away from home.
Burlak
And the young Gilyarovsky went "to the people." He certainly wanted to enroll in barge haulers. Nekrasov's poems strengthened such an unusual desire. In those years in Russia, thousands of lives were crushed by cholera. It was thanks to the epidemic that Gilyarovsky managed to become a hoover. He was taken to the place of the deceased worker in the brigade.
In the book "My Wanderings" Gilyarovsky describes the life of the hacks, the fate of the people who met him on the way. The memoirist paid special attention to people with an eccentric disposition and the so-called broad Russian soul. In My Wanderings, for example, he tells of a merchant known in those years who, after drinking alcohol, drove the captain from the wheelhouse of his own steamboat and began to lead himself, trying at all costs to overtake the ship that set sail half an hour earlier. It was not always possible for him to succeed. But the frantic race certainly terrified passengers.
Gilyarovsky heard about this man for the first time during his return home. Years later, in the book Moscow and Muscovites, he did not deprive his literary attention of a number of eccentric merchants in the capital and other professions.
In the Caucasus
In 1877, Gilyarovsky volunteered for the Caucasus. The writer fought valiantly. Received the St. George Cross - a rare and honorable award. He later proudly recalled the years of military service more than once. Although, according to contemporaries, the St. George Cross was rarely worn in peacetime.
Journalism
After demobilization, Gilyarovsky left for Moscow, where he soon became known as the author of topical notes. During his travels, he constantly made small sketches, which later turned into full-fledged literary works. It took Gilyarovsky just a few years to become an expert on the mores of the capital's inhabitants. His popularity grew along with his writing experience. In 1887, the collection Slum People was published.
Poetry
Gilyarovsky is little known as a poet. His poetry is far inferior to prose. But at the beginning of World War I, he nevertheless published several collections, the fee for which he transferred to the support fund for wounded soldiers.
Among the friends of Vladimir Gilyarovsky there were many artists, both experienced and beginners. He willingly bought paintings by unknown artists, then wrote notes about them. Thus, Gilyarovsky supported the young masters not only financially, but also morally. After buying the painting, he boasted of acquiring acquaintances, assuring that the author would certainly be famous. As a rule, Gilyarovsky was not mistaken.
Last book
In Soviet times, the journalist continued his literary work. His books have never been on the shelves. The last work - “Friends and Meetings” - Gilyarovsky wrote in the last year of his life. By that time he was almost blind.
The books of Vladimir Gilyarovsky are still popular today. "Moscow and Muscovites" is a work that should be read by everyone who is interested in Russian and metropolitan culture of the late nineteenth century.