“in all our literature, so marked with humanism there has never been a more vivid proponent of the latter.”
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Vladimir Korolenko
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Russian writer, journalist and humanitarian of Ukrainian origin. His best-known work includes the short novel The Blind Musician (1886), as well as numerous short stories based upon his experience of exile in Siberia. Korolenko was a strong critic of the Tsarist regime and in his final years of the Bolsheviks.
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culture · Russian writer (1853–1921) · writer · autobiographer · literary critic · journalist · prose writer · opinion journalist · also Vladimir Korolenko, Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko, Vladimir G. Korolenko, Korolenko
Born 15 July 1853 · Died 25 December 1921 · Q335064
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1956· 1 entry
“Reminiscences of Lenin by His Relatives”
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1921· 2 entries
Died 1921-12-25.
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Anatoly Lunacharsky declared Korolenko "undoubtedly the biggest contemporary Russian writer" even if belonging wholly to the Russian historical and literary past, a "shining figure looming large between the liberal ideal
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1913· 1 entry
Took strong public stand[1] against the anti-Semitic Beilis trial and wrote the powerful essay "Call to the Russian People in regard to the blood libel of the Jews" (1911–13)
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1911· 1 entry
At the opening of the monument to Mykola Gogol in Sorochyntsy
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1910· 1 entry
The rest (Part 4 unfinished) came out posthumously, in 1922
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1906· 1 entry
Headed the campaign against military law and capital punishment and in the late 1900s sharply criticised the governments' punitive actions ("Everyday Phenomenon", 1910, "Features of Military Justice", 1910, "In the Pa
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1905· 3 entries
Became her father's personal secretary and was one of co-editors of the 1914 A
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Russkoye Bogatstvo (which he had started editing a year earlier) published the Manifest by the Petersburg Soviet of the Workers' deputies
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Spoke at rallies in Poltava to prevent Jewish pogroms in the city
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1902· 1 entry
When Maxim Gorky was expelled as a member because of his revolutionary activities
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1896· 2 entries
Summarizing his experiences in "The Multan Affair", Мултанское дело) Korolenko made sure the whole country became aware of the trial, exposed the fabrications, himself performed as barrister in court and almost single-ha
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Korolenko moved his family to Saint Petersburg
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1894· 1 entry
Joined the staff of Russkoye Bogatstvo (the magazine he stayed with until 1918) where he discovered and encouraged, among others, the young Alexey Peshkov (as he was still known in 1889) and Konstantin Balmont
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1886· 2 entries
Published the short novel Slepoi Muzykant (Слепой музыкант), which enjoyed 15 re-issues during its author's lifetime
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In January 1886 Vladimir Korolenko married Evdokiya Semyonovna Ivanovskaya (Евдокия Семёновна Ивановская, born 1855, Tula Governorate; 1940 in Poltava), a fellow Narodnik he first met years ago in Moscow.
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1885· 1 entry
When, having just returned from exile, he settled in Nizhny Novgorod
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1879· 1 entry
And spent five years in Glazov, Vyatka Governorate where he worked as a locksmith in a small workshop he co-owned with a friend
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1876· 2 entries
And 1879, and spent 1879-1883 in exile before being allowed to settle in Nizhny Novgorod where she met and married her old friend Korolenko
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For having signed a collective letter protesting against the arrest of a fellow student, and was exiled to the Vologda region, then Kronstadt, where the authorities agreed to transfer him, answering his mother's plea
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1874· 1 entry
Moved to Moscow and joined the Moscow College of Agriculture and Forestry
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1871· 1 entry
Korolenko enrolled into Saint Petersburg Technological Institute but after a year spent in utmost poverty had to leave in early 1873 due to financial problems
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1867· 1 entry
Aged 1 year and 10 months, and was buried in Rovno
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1866· 1 entry
Evelina Iosifovna, suffering enormous hardships, somehow managed to raise her five children, three sons and two daughters, on a meagre income
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1853· 1 entry
Born 1853-07-15.
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