10 1875 October, the
He died in the Chernigov province. Alexey Tolstoy. Writer, satirist, co-author of "Kozma Prutkov".
Our land is rich, but there is no order in it.
Born in 1817 St. Petersburg, into the family of a banking adviser. On Sundays, he was the future emperor's "playmate." Alexander II, with whom he remained friends for the rest of his life.
His uncle instilled in him a love of literature: he also wrote the story “The Black Hen, or Underground Dwellers” for his nephew.
From the age of 6 I started to scribble on paper and write poetry.
He published his first story, about vampires in a noble estate, at 24.
More than 80 songs and romances are based on Tolstoy’s poems and verses.
My little bells,
Steppe flowers!
Why are you looking at me?
Dark blue?
And what are you ringing about?
On this merry May day,
Amidst the unmown grass
Shaking your head?
He made a meteoric rise: at just 26, he became a chamberlain and escorted members of the imperial family. He served as an official in various departments.
In 1861 he entered into a long-awaited retirement and settled in Pustynka estate near St. Petersburg and rarely ventured into the capital.
A few years before his resignation, together with Zhemchuzhnikov brothers began publishing under a pseudonym Kozma Prutkov, who became the epitome of the narcissistic bureaucrat. He ridiculed stagnation, conservatism, and bureaucracy.
If you have a fountain, plug it; give the fountain a rest too.
If you want to be happy, be it
Their play "Fantasy" was staged at the Alexandrinsky Theatre. But the outraged Nicholas I He didn't wait until it was finished and left, after which the play was banned.
In retirement, he completed the novel "Prince Silver" - about the time of Ivan the Terrible.
He is not the only one responsible for his reign; he is not the only one who created his tyranny, and tortures, and executions, and snitching, which became a duty and a custom.
These outrageous phenomena were prepared by previous times. And the earth, having fallen so low that it could look upon them without indignation, itself created and perfected John.
He died from an overdose of morphine, which he took as prescribed by a doctor due to severe headaches.
