Makar's Dream, and Other Stories

Makar's Dream, and Other Stories

[vi] VLADIMIR KOROLENKO The writings of Vladimir Korolenko have been likened to a fresh breeze blowing through the heavy air of a hospital. The hospital is the pessimistic literature of the modern Russian intellectuals; the fresh breeze is the voice of the simple-hearted children of Mother Russia. These are for the most part tillers of the soil and conquerors of waste places; peasants, pioneers, and Siberian exiles; they often belong to the great class of the insulted and the injured: they suffer untold hardships, but their heads are unbowed and their hearts are full of courage and the desire for justice. Among them the great writers early life was spent. Vladimir Korolenko was born on June 15th, 1853, in Zhitomir, a small town in Southwestern or Little Russia. On his fathers side he came of an old Cossack family, his mother was the daughter of a Polish landowner of Zhitomir. The boys early life was spent amidst picturesque surroundings; he grew up among the Poles, Jews, and light-hearted, dark-eyed peasants that make up the population of Little Russia, and he never lost the poetic love of nature and the wholesome sense of humour that were nurtured[viii] in him under those warm, bright skies. In his story entitled In Bad Company he has vividly described the romantic little town that was the home of his childhood. The stern but just judge of that tale is more or less the prototype of his own father. The elder Korolenko was distinguished for an impeccable honesty of practice rare in an official of those times; consequently, when he died in 1870, he left his widow and five children without the slightest means of support. Thanks, however, to the energy of his heroic mother, Vladimir was enabled at seventeen to enter the School of Technology in Petrograd. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 62555
Author: Korolenko, Vladimir Galaktionovich
Release Date: Oct 2, 2020
Format: eBook
Language: English

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Translator: Fell, Marian