His ashes were moved to the Volkovo Cemetery in Leningrad
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Ivan Goncharov
Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov was a Russian novelist best known for his novels The Same Old Story, Oblomov (1859), and The Precipice. He also served in many official capacities, including the position of censor.
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culture · Russian novelist and official (1812–1891) · linguist · writer · novelist · translator · essayist · literary critic · prose writer · opinion journalist · theatre critic · also Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Alexandrovich Goncharov, Ivan Aleksandrovich Goncharov, I.A. Gontsjarov, Goncharov
Born 6 June 1812 · Died 15 September 1891 · Q189665
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1891· 1 entry
Died 1891-09-15.
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1880· 1 entry
The first edition of The Complete Works of Goncharov was published
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1869· 1 entry
The Precipice, a story of the romantic rivalry among three men, condemning nihilism as subverting the religious and moral values of Russia, was published in Vestnik Evropy
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1867· 1 entry
Goncharov retired from his censorial position to devote himself entirely to writing The Precipice, a book he later called "my heart's child", which took him twenty years to finish
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1863· 1 entry
Became a member of the State Publishing Council and two years later joined the Russian government's Department of Publishing
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1858· 1 entry
Frigate "Pallada" was published as a separate book; it received favourable reviews and became very popular
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1856· 1 entry
As the official publishing policy hardened, Goncharov quit
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1855· 2 entries
Accepted the post of censor in the Saint Petersburg censorship committee
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In Home of the Gentry and On the Eve), nevertheless declared: "As long as there is even one Russian alive, Oblomov will be remembered
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1852· 1 entry
Goncharov embarked on a long journey through England, Africa, Japan, and back to Russia, on board the frigate Pallada, as a secretary for Admiral Yevfimy Putyatin, whose mission was to inspect Alaska and other distant ou
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1849· 1 entry
Sovremennik published Oblomov's Dream, an extract from Goncharov's future second novel Oblomov (known under the working title The Artist at the time), which worked well on its own as a short story
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1842· 1 entry
Goncharov wrote an essay called Ivan Savvich Podzhabrin, a natural school psychological sketch
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1838· 1 entry
“The Galloping Disease/A Cruel Illness”
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1834· 1 entry
Goncharov graduated from the University and returned home to enter the chancellery of Simbirsk governor A
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1832· 1 entry
The Telescope magazine published two chapters of Eugène Sue's novel Atar-Gull (1831), translated by Goncharov
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1830· 1 entry
Goncharov decided to quit the college, and in 1831 (having missed one year because of a cholera outbreak in Moscow), he enrolled in Moscow State University's Philology Faculty to study literature, arts, and architecture
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1812· 1 entry
Born 1812-06-06.
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