Orenburg poet biography

Born in Orenburg in a Cossack family. The father served as an official, at one time owned a shop, but soon went bankrupt. Mother is a person of hot sincere faith, raising his son on the lives of the saints. He studied at the gymnasium while working in a shop, later - in the spiritual seminaries of Orenburg and Ufa, from childhood, he was fond of reading, the desire to engage in literary creativity largely influenced the book of G.

at the end of the Ufa seminary with G. in the city of GG. In early creativity, as the householder of the native land, the Orenburg steppes and the foothills of the Urals, acts. In stories and stories about the Cossacks, he creates images of the owners of the vast steppes, strong -willed and humane people. A lot of stories are devoted to the description of the ministers of the church: both priests-enlighteners, good and disinterested, as well as dashingly, inciting parishioners.

Most often, in the center of such a narrative is the relationship of the shepherd with the flock: peasants and those in power. Stories are marked with the thorough knowledge of the depicted environment and household reliability, but sometimes somewhat monotonous. The narrator acutely perceives the injustice and oppression of some people by others, is attentive to the kindness and responsiveness inherent in the people, but does not bypass the peasant customs.

Many stories dedicated to the activities and life of the rural and county clergy, his mindships, family life with its fret and contradictions, sometimes painful, are often crumpled, dramatically complicated. In a number of works, the traditions of the Pushkin’s “Belkin’s Tales”, the family chronicles S. Aksakov and L. Tolstoy are traced, in particular - N. prose wrote one of his best works in the year, the story “In the Land of Fathers”.

He was one of the most popular authors of the period preceding the revolution, entered the literary group "Wednesday". He was close to M. Gorky and was under his influence, came to him on the island of Capri was married to a poet of G. Later, the marriage broke up.

He lived exclusively literary work, which encouraged “multiplication” for the sake of earnings. Often he printed his stories twice, or even three times under different titles. At the beginning of the First World War, he lived in Moscow, in the GG. He worked in sanitary trains, was at the front. To the events of G. G. October Revolution accepted as an inevitable explosion of dissatisfaction with a desperate poor.

He wrote campaign verses, at the same time warning against blind revenge and the destruction of cultural values. With wandering around Russia. The Gusev-Orenburgsky described his post-revolutionary weapons: “For three years I wandered along the limits of Russia in the vortices of the Civil War, lived in Ukraine, under the Germans, Skoropadsky, hungry and colded in Moscow, drove along the Polish front, moved around Ukraine with the Denikin army, survived its flowering and collapse, survived the strokes, shelling of Kiev and Kiev and the shelter and the shelling of Kyiv and Rostov, lived in Crimea after Wrangel and again in Moscow shortly before the transition to the new economic policy.

” In the middle he went through Chita and Blagoveshchensk in Harbin. In Chita, he published “Diary of a fiction writer. In connection with the responses to her, the source of trouble with the people. ” Socialism seemed to the writer "an insidious bait in the hands of the Antichrist." Khataeva emigrated from Harbin to the United States, explaining the departure of the inability to find the use of his literary work in Russia.

He lived in New York. He was in correspondence with M. Kalinin, but did not receive an answer. In New York, the magazine "Life" edited in New York. In exile, he published a number of his works, both old and written after the revolution. Kerensky in the county for the proceedings of the case of a fabric of landowner estates. In the description of the new Russian reality, he acted as a comedian and satirist SB.

In Moscow, the story “Country of the Fathers”, in and published in New York and London in English, was reached in English. In the novel "Country of Children" New York,; English per. The book “In the Deep County and other stories” New York consisted of old works. The autobiographical book “In Search of the Path: Rhythmic Reflections” published in New York in the motives traditional for the writer and new stories are characterized by the collection “Holy Rus'.

Emigrant stories ”New York, died in New York in the year. Gusev-Orenburg on the Web:.