M. M. Prishvin is a nugget of Russian literature who became a famous writer thanks to his unusually vivid and picturesque stories and tales of nature. Prishvin’s biography (for the 6th grade) makes it clear that it was nature that became the pivot of his literary works and the well from which he drew his inspiration. Prishvin devoted a considerable part of his work to children. Among the well-known collections and works, the most distinguished are “The Beast Chipmunk”, “Lisichkin Bread”, “Pantry of the Sun”, etc.
Prishvin's biography (for grade 6)
So, Prishvin was born on February 4, 1873 in the family estate of Khrushchev-Levshino, Yelets district, Orel province, which was inherited from his grandfather, a wealthy landowner, by his father.
Prishvin's father Mikhail Dmitrievich lived, as they say, in a big way. He was very fond of hunting and playing cards, which dragged him so much that one day he lost a large sum of money into it and was forced to mortgage the estate and sell his stud farm. From this shock, he could not recover for a long time, and eventually died of paralysis.
The mother of the future writer Maria Ivanovna was a strong woman and was able to rectify the situation. Left without a husband with five children, she was nevertheless able to learn all of them.
Study
First Misha studied at the elementary village school, then he was transferred to the Yelets gymnasium, but there he had a conflict with one of the teachers, and therefore the boy was expelled. Prishvin had to go to live with his uncle I. Ignatov in Tyumen, where he was engaged in large- scale industrial production. There, Michael studied at the Alexander Real School for 6 years.
In 1893, Mikhail entered the Riga Polytechnic Institute and joined the Marxist circle, for which he was arrested. He spent a year in the Mitava prison, and then he was sent into exile in his native Yelets, and he spent there from 1898 to 1900. Then he left for Germany and graduated from the University of Leipzig with a degree in agriculture. He began his career as a zemstvo agronomist in Lugansk and Klin districts.
Creativity Prishvina
His first literary work was the story "Sashok", published in 1906 in the publication "Spring". Prishvin was very interested in ethnography and folklore, so he went on a trip to the northern provinces, where he studied the culture of the local population. In 1907-1908, he wrote a collection of essays and short stories, which later included the books “Behind the Magic Kolobok” and “In the Land of Frightened Birds”.
He continued his travels in Kazakhstan, the Crimea and the Volga region, and at the same time he wrote a lot. Soon he became a well-known writer and became close to such literary scholars as M. Gorky, A. Tolstoy, D. Merezhkovsky. Under the leadership of Gorky Prishvin from 1912-1914. released his first collected works.
Work
In World War I he was a war correspondent and front-line orderly. After the 1917 revolution, Prishvin continued to work as an agronomist, then as a teacher in his Yelets gymnasium, then became the principal of the Dorogobuzh district school.
In 20 years, he created many children's works and hunting stories, which are included in the famous collection "Calendar of Nature."
Prishvin’s biography (for grade 6) contains interesting facts that in 1923 he began work on the autobiographical work “The Koscheev Chain”.
In 30 years, he again began to travel a lot. He traveled all over Central Russia, the Far East and the Far North.
Almost all the works were printed during the writer's life. In them, he described his impressions of communication with nature and animals. No wonder he was called the "singer of Russian nature", many eminent writers worshiped his talent. Since Prishvin loved nature, and as he described it, no one else could.
Diaries
Prishvin's biography (for grade 6) has accurate evidence that his most reliable assistants were diaries, which he wrote almost from childhood (since 1905). So his father taught him to do it. And he did this until the end of his days. In volume they exceeded all his eight-volume works several times, and were even partially published.
Prishvin’s life was interrupted on January 16, 1954 in Moscow. He was buried at Vvedensky cemetery.