4 February 1873 year
В Oryol province was born Mikhail PrishvinWriter. Author of the candid "Diaries," in which he described his observations of Russian and Soviet life over the course of half a century—from 1905 to 1954:
For every line of my diary - 10 years of execution
Misha's father died when he was seven. His mother was left with five children and an estate that her husband had mortgaged twice after losing at cards. She straightened things out and provided education for all the children. In Misha's case, it wasn't without its challenges.
First, he fled from the gymnasium to Asia, by boat. He was brought back. A philosopher interceded for the fugitive. Vasily Rozanov, who taught geography at that school. A couple of years later, Rozanov himself dismissed Prishvin for insolence. Much later, they would meet again. They would make peace. Prishvin, reflecting on his place in literature, would write:
Rozanov is an afterword to Russian literature, I am a free supplement
Until 1905, he worked as an agronomist. Then, as a journalist. He became interested in ethnography and folklore, and went on expeditions to collect folk tales and travelogues.
"A sea of forests" isn't bad, it's just a bit of a shame about the forest: the sea is a sea, but the forest itself is no worse, in my opinion, even better than the sea.
He didn't accept the Bolshevik coup. He was imprisoned for his essay "Murderer!" about Lenin in the Socialist Revolutionary newspaper "Will of the People."
They wouldn't let me publish it. I asked for money for my autobiographical "The Worldly Cup" Trotsky — Soviet power must have the courage to see what hurts the eyes. Trotsky appreciated it, but refused to let it be published—it was "politically harmful."
Many of his works were published only after his death. For his Diaries, which he considered his most important book, he prepared zinc boxes so that, in case of a threat of confiscation, he could seal the notebooks in them and bury them.
And all rapists are certainly ideological (both Hitler and Lenin), and in their ideas there is happiness in the future, and death in the present.
During his lifetime he was known as the "singer of Russian nature." This is what he called Paustovsky — for the beautiful language and almost tangible images.
Life begins with joy and ends with the despondency of death. There are people who deliberately torment themselves throughout their lives in order to achieve death as the joy of deliverance from the torments of life.
Died in 1954.
