Pyotr Dmitrievich Boborykin
Pyotr Boborykin ( Russian Пётр Дмитриевич Боборыкин ., Scientific transliteration Petr Dmitrievič Boborykin * August 15 . Jul / 27. August 1836 greg. In Nizhny Novgorod , Russia ; † 12. August 1921 in Lugano , Switzerland ) was a Russian writer .
Life
Boborykin studied at the Law Faculty of Kazan University and the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of Dorpat University . His extensive oeuvre, which includes dramas, novels, short stories and critical essays, provides a picture of the intellectual and social changes from the middle of the 19th century to the 20th century, especially among the Russian intelligentsia . His literary career began in the 1860s. In an article entitled Beauty, Life and Creativity , which appeared in 1893, he criticized Chernyshevsky's aesthetic beliefs . Translated into German, the novels Occidental Sacrifice (1868, German 1893) and Kitai-Gorod (1882, German 1895) were published. In 1902 Boborykin was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy . He emigrated in 1914 and died in Switzerland on August 12, 1921.
literature
- Русские писатели. Биобиблиографический словарь. Том 1. А-Л. Под редакцией П. А. Николаева. М., Просвещение, 1990.
Web links
- Russian Visual Arts
- Short biography (Russian)
- Русские писатели ". Биобиблиографический словарь Article digitized
- Hanns-Martin Wietek: Dmitri Mamin Sibirjak, "The Siberian" and Pjotr Boborykin, the most forgotten writer of his time
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Boborykin, Pyotr Dmitrievich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Пётр Дмитриевич Боборыкин |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Russian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1836 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Nizhny Novgorod |
| DATE OF DEATH | August 12, 1921 |
| Place of death | Lugano |