| | 1 | Author: | Kayden, Eugene M. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Leonid Andreyev: 1871-1919  | | | | Published: | 1998 | | | | Subjects: | University of Virginia Library, Text collection | UVA-LIB-Text | | | | Description: | BETWEEN THE TWO REVOLUTIONS of 1905 and 1917
Leonid Andreyev was without a doubt the foremost writer in
Russia. His name was always spoken with veneration, in
mysterious whispers, as a grim portentous magician who descended
into the ultimate depths of the nether side of life and fathomed the
beauty and tragedy of the struggle. Leonid Nickolayevitch was born
in the province of Oryol, in 1871, and studied law at the University
of Moscow. Those were days of suffering and starvation; he gazed
into the abyss of sorrow and despair. In January 1894 he made an
unsuccessful attempt to kill himself by shooting, and then was
forced by the authorities to severe penitence, which augmented the
natural morbidness of his temperament. As a lawyer his career was
short-lived, and he soon abandoned it for literature, beginning as a
police-court reporter on the Moscow Courier. In 1902 he published
the short story In the Fog, which for the first time brought him
universal recognition. He was imprisoned during the revolution of
1905, together with Maxim Gorky, on political charges. Such are
the few significant details of his personal life, for the true Andreyev
is entirely in his stories and plays. | | | Similar Items: | Find |
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