Skitalets (real name Stepan Petrov , November 9 ( October 28 ), 1869 , Obsharovka village, Samara district , Samara province - June 25, 1941 , Moscow ) - Russian writer, poet and novelist.
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Birth name | Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov |
Aliases | The Wanderer |
Date of Birth | |
Place of Birth | Village Obsharovka , Samara Province , Russian Empire |
Date of death | |
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Citizenship (citizenship) | |
Occupation | writer , poet |
Direction | realism |
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Works on the site Lib.ru | |
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Biography
Born in the family of a carpenter, who was also a guslar . He played the harp and the Wanderer himself. He studied at the Samara Teachers' Seminary, where he was expelled for “unreliability”.
He took part in the revolutionary movement , in 1888, 1901, 1902 and 1905 was arrested. From 1908 he retired from revolutionary activities.
From 1897 he worked in the newspaper, in 1898 he met Gorky , who had a great influence on him.
In 1908, a summer cottage was built in the Crimea in the Baidar valley (Skeli village).
In the 1900s, he was published in the collections of the Knowledge publishing house organized by Gorky, in various newspapers and magazines. Active member of the literary circle "Wednesday". In 1902-1907, three volumes of the Wanderer's works were published, in 1912 - another 3.
In the 1900s-1910s, several romances were composed to the poems of Petrov-Wanderer, the most popular of which were “ Bells, bells ... ” put on music by Michael Steinberg (the text of the original poem for romance was somewhat abbreviated). This song was performed by the most popular pop singers of that time ( Plevitskaya , Vyaltseva , Dulkevich , Morfessi , Davydov , Vavich ), dozens of records went out in large quantities. In the wake of the extraordinary success of the song, Mikhail Shteinberg composed the author’s text, publishing “New Jingle Bells”, which marked the beginning of folk art: until now this song is performed by many artists, when only the remembered key words and chorus remain from the original text.
At the beginning of World War I went to the front as an orderly. He published several essays and stories in which he spoke out with a condemnation of the war.
He reacted positively to the February Revolution , did not accept the October Revolution .
From 1913 to 1921 he lived in Simbirsk (now Ulyanovsk), on Proletarskaya Street 41.
In 1921 he emigrated to China. From 1922 to 1934 he lived in Harbin . He continued active literary activity, from 1928 published in Soviet journals.
June 17, 1934 returned to Moscow. He repeatedly met with Gorky, engaged in literary and social activities. He took part in the work of the First Congress of Soviet Writers (without a decisive vote).
He died on June 25, 1941. He was buried at Vvedensky cemetery in Moscow.
Addresses in St. Petersburg
1905 - 8th Rozhdestvenskaya Street, 25.
Bibliography
- "Samara stanzas" (cycle of poetic feuilletons)
- the story " Octave " (1900)
- story " Through the system " (1901)
- "Shackles" (1904)
- " Field Court " (1905)
- "On the Road" (1905)
- "For a long time I walked without a road" (1906) [3]
- "The forest inflamed " (1906)
- Cinders (1906)
- "Stages" (1907, revised 1937)
- "Through the system!" (1916)
- "Lawrence Shibaev" (1921)
- The House of the Drafts (novel, published in 1935)
- " Shackles " (novel, 1940, dep. Ed. 1956)
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 The Wanderer Stepan Gavrilovich // The Great Soviet Encyclopedia : [30 t.] / Ed. A.M. Prokhorov - 3rd ed. - M .: Soviet Encyclopedia , 1969.
- ↑ International Music Score Library Project - 2006.
- Published in the newspaper Young Russia . 1906. 1 year. № 1. P. 4.
Literature
- Complete Works, Vol. 1-8, P., 1916-19;
- Novels and stories. Memories, M., 1960.
- Korolkova LK, The Creative Way of the Wanderer, Tomsk, 1964.
- Favorites. M .: Fiction. 1988
Links
- S. Vengerov . The Wanderer // Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary : 86 t. (82 t. And 4 add.). - SPb. , 1890-1907.
- The Wanderer in the Literary Encyclopedia
- Encyclopedia of Russian emigration (inaccessible link)
- detailed biography and major works