Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin is a Russian poet and critic. Vsevolod is of Ukrainian origin. Writers such as Chekhov and Turgenev spoke positively about Garshin's work.
The writer was born on February 2, 1855 on the estate, which is located on the territory of modern Ukraine.
Family of Vsevolod Garshin
Garshin grew up in a noble family. Legends say that the writer's family descended from Murza Garshi, who was an intelligent and intelligent woman from the Golden Horde. She was interested in politics, literature, was a polyglot. Mikhail Yegorovich, was a military man. Vsevolod Garshin -.
At the age of five, I had to endure grief. The poet's mother fell in love with an inveterate and then famous revolutionary. Mikhail Yegorovich's wife ran away with her lover, and his father complained about this to the higher authorities. The couple was arrested, the revolutionary was sucked in Petrozavodsk, and Seva's mother moved to St. Petersburg in order to be closer to her beloved. Vsevolod's father lost the love of his life. Personal life after that did not work out.
Because of this incident, little Garshin's health deteriorated greatly,. Vsevolod often had nervous attacks. After the parents separated, the boy lived with the OCT. In 1864, the boy was taken by his mother and sent to study at an elite gymnasium in St. Petersburg.
Writer's creativity
After graduating from high school, the author was educated at an institute in St. Petersburg. It was there that he began to get involved in literature, wrote articles and essays. But,. During the training, the Russian-Turkish war began and Vsevolod was sent to the front. The career there was developing remarkably. Garshin, however, was wounded and resigned.
After the service, Vsevolod began to actively engage in literature. Working on the stories reassured the author. The very first story amazed readers and won the hearts of critics. The story was titled "Four Days". In this story, the author described his position, said that he. This topic became one of the key ones in the writer's further work. Vsevolod dedicated a cycle of his works to this subject: "Batman and Officer", "Ayaslyar Affair", "From the Memoirs of Private Ivanov" and "Coward".
In 1883, Garshin published another composition, The Red Flower. In this creation, Vsevolod wanted to understand the role of art in human life. The main character of the work is mentally unhealthy and is trying to fight evil all over the world. It seems to him that all evil is embodied in a red flower in the garden. He believed that it would be enough to rip it off and the evil disappears. Later, Anton Pavlovich Chekhov developed a similar theme in his stories.
The last years of the author's life
Vsevolod was a very impressionable person. He was very shocked by the execution of the revolutionary Mlodetsky, who was a good friend of Vsevolod. After that, Girshin underwent examination in a psychiatric hospital for two years.
Even after examination and treatment, the seizures continued. During one of them, the writer jumped into the staircase and died. It happened on March 31, 1888.
