Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich: biography, activities and interesting facts

Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich is a poet, writer, journalist. A man who became a legend during his lifetime. Events from the biography of this extraordinary personality are reflected in the famous works. Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich is rightfully considered a classic of the memoir genre.

Biography

In order to understand what this writer was, one should read his books. Life, full of amazing adventures, events and observations, he described in the works "My wanderings", "Moscow and Muscovites". Giljarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich, before devoting himself to journalism, traveled a lot of cities, managed to work as a harpooner, a worker, a herdsman, a soldier, and even an actor. The article contains interesting facts from the biography of Gilyarovsky, which he told about in his works. But first you should mention the main dates of life.

Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich was born in 1855 in the Vologda province. He started writing poems from high school days. At sixteen years he fled the house, walked from Kostroma to Rybinsk. Gilyarovsky served in the Caucasus during the Russo-Turkish War. I changed several professions. He arrived in Moscow in 1881, where he started writing literature.

In 1935, after passing a long, bright, unusual path, Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky passed away. Books by this author:

1. "Slums people."
2. "In the homeland of Gogol."
3. "My wanderings."
4. "Moscow and the Muscovites."
5. "Friends and meetings."

Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich, whose biography is reflected in fascinating memoir prose, is a writer whose names are in Moscow, Vologda and Tambov. The writer and reporter at the Novodevichye Cemetery was buried.

Uncle Gilyai

So the writer called friends and colleagues. Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich possessed indomitable energy and unusual diligence. At the same time, he was a man who was extremely kind, sociable. The doors of his house were always open. On a visit to it zahazhivali Chekhov, Tolstoy, Kuprin and many other literary figures. Gilyarovsky had a rather picturesque appearance. From him wrote one of the Cossacks Repin and sculpted the figure of Taras Bulba Andreev.

Today known Gilyarovsky primarily thanks to books devoted to the life of the Moscow "bottom". Residents of Khitrovka and other unreliable regions were very fond of a man who possesses heroic strength and boundless kindness. In the late nineteenth century, there was hardly a Muscovite who had not heard of Uncle Gilya. Surprisingly, this man was a welcome guest both at the invited parties, and on the thieves' revelry in the tabernacles of Tishinka. "The King of Reporters" has become a living landmark of the capital. One of the writers once said: "It's easier to imagine Moscow without the Tsar-bell than without Gilyarovsky.

Childhood

From the description of the early years of the writer begins the book "My Wanderings". Gilyarovsky Vladimir Alekseevich was the son of a bailiff. The future reporter lost his mother early. Stepmother fell in love with Vladimir, as a son. And in the first year she began to teach her stepson to the French language and to teach him secular manners. Although Vladimir liked to read, Vladimir preferred circus, fishing and all sorts of adventures. Several times the negligent schoolboy was left for the second year. A little older, Gilyarovsky and completely escaped from the house.

Burlak

And the young Gilyarovsky went "to the people." He certainly wanted to join the barge haulers. Nekrasov's poems reinforced such an unusual desire. In those years, in Russia, thousands of lives knocked down cholera. It was thanks to the epidemic that Gilyarovsky managed to become a burlac. In the brigade he was taken to the place of the deceased worker.

In the book "My wanderings" Gilyarovsky describes the life of the burlaks, the fate of the people who met him on the way. The memoirist paid special attention to people with an eccentric temper and the so-called broad Russian soul. In My Wanderings, for example, he tells of a merchant who was famous at that time, who, after drinking alcohol, drove the captain from the cutting of his own steamer and began to direct himself, trying at all costs to overtake the ship, which had departed half an hour earlier. It was not always possible for him. But the mad race certainly terrified the passengers.

About this man Gilyarovsky heard for the first time during his return home. Years later, in the book "Moscow and Muscovites", he did not deprive his literary attention of a number of eccentric capital merchants and representatives of other professions.

In the Caucasus

In 1877, Gilyarovsky went as a volunteer to the Caucasus. The writer fought valiantly. He received the St. George Cross - a rare and honorable award. About the years of military service, he subsequently repeatedly recalled with pride. Although, as contemporaries claimed, the St. George's cross in peacetime wore extremely rare.

Journalism

After the demobilization, Gilyarovsky left for Moscow, where he soon became known as the author of topical notes. During his travels, he constantly made small sketches, which later turned into full-fledged literary works. Only a few years it took Gilyarovsky to become a connoisseur of the morals of the metropolitan residents. His popularity grew with his writing experience. In 1887 the collection "Slum people" was published.

Poetry

Gilyarovsky is little known as the author of poetry. His poetry is much inferior to prose. But at the beginning of the First World War, he still published several collections, the fee for which was transferred to the support fund for wounded soldiers.

Among the friends of Vladimir Gilyarovsky there were many artists, both experienced and beginners. He willingly bought paintings of unknown painters, then wrote notes about them. Thus, Gilarovsky supported young masters not only financially, but also morally. After buying the painting, he boasted of acquiring acquaintances, assuring that the author would by all means be famous. As a rule, Gilyarovsky was not mistaken.

The last book

In Soviet times, the journalist continued his literary career. His books never lay on the shelves. The last work - "Friends and Encounters" - Gilyarovsky wrote in the last year of his life. By the time he was almost blind.

Books by Vladimir Gilyarovsky are still popular today. "Moscow and Muscovites" is a work that every person who is interested in Russian and Moscow culture of the late nineteenth century should read.