Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov

Gravestone with Shishkov's medallion in the Novodevichy Cemetery

Vyachelaw Jakowlewitsch Schischkow ( Russian: Вячеслав Яковлевич Шишков ; * September 21st ^July / October 3rd,  1873 ^greg. In Beschezk , Tver Governorate ; † March 6th 1945 in Moscow ), son of a businessman, was a Russian-Soviet writer.

Schischkow worked for 20 years (from 1894 to 1915) as an engineer in the Tomsk Regional Transport Administration ( Siberia ). Thereby he got to know large areas of Siberia on water and on land: the Yenisei , Ob , the Lena , Pinega , Wytschegda , Northern Dvina , Suchona , Angara and Bija ( Altai ). His month-long expeditions from spring to autumn were not without danger: once his expedition did not perish because it met Tungusian nomads on the Lower Tunguska . The life of the common people in Siberia flowed into his sketches and stories: small farmers, prospectors, nomads, political exiles, Cossacks from the Irtysh , Kyrgyz and Yakuts .

The first stories were published in Siberian magazines in 1908. In 1911 he sent two of his stories to Gorky . Through his participation they appeared in the new magazine of the neorealists Sawety ( Заветы , German: legacies ). Shishkov made friends with Ivanov-Razumnikov, Remisow, Prischwin , Mirolyubov and Averyanov and received support from them. He only met Gorky for the first time in the winter of 1914.

From 1913 to 1914 Shishkov led a large expedition to the Altai to check the route to western Mongolia ( Tschuiski trakt / Чуйский тракт ) , which was built between 1903 and 1913, for damage and repair it. In 1915 Shishkov moved to Petersburg.

Shishkov's main work on the peasant leader Pugachev remained unfinished due to a serious illness.

Works

• На Лене . 1910 (German: An der Lena )
• Сибирский сказ . 1916 (German: A Siberian fairy tale )
• Угрюм-река . 1933 (1949 German: The Dark Stream )
• Емельян Пугачев . 1935–1949, 3 volumes, unfinished (German: Emeljan Pugatschow )
• Странники . 1931
  • Vagabonds . Berlin 1964 (German by Traute and Günther Stein)

Web links

• Literature by and about Vyacheslav Jakowlewitsch Schischkow in the catalog of the German National Library
• Alphabetical catalog raisonné (Russian)