Biography Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich


(1853-1922)

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was born in 1853 in the city of Zhitomir. His father was an official of the judicial department and was distinguished by incorruptible honesty, sharply singling it out from among the officials of that time. The writer’s mother was the daughter of a middle-class landowner. In 1868, Korolenko’s father died, leaving his family without any means. At this time, the future writer was a sixth-grade school boy. After graduating from the gymnasium in 1871, Korolenko moved to Petersburg and entered the Institute of Technology. The first two years passed in a severe struggle against hunger. In 1874, Korolenko left for Moscow, as he moved to the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy, but he did not succeed in completing it, because he was expelled and then deported for filing a collective protest against the police regime that reigned in the academy. 3 years Korolenko lived in Kronstadt under the supervision of the police. In 1877 he entered the St. Petersburg Mining Institute, but again he was sent first to Glazov, then to Berezovye Pochinki, then to Eastern Siberia, and finally to Perm. In 1881, for refusing to give the oath to the new tsar, Korolenko was exiled to Yakutia. After the reference, Korolenko moved to Nizhny Novgorod, where he spent the remaining 10 years of his life


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Biography Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich