Biography Veresaev Vikenty Vikentievich
(1867-1945)
Veresaev (real name – Smidovich) Vikenty Vikentievich (1867 – 1945), writer, literary critic, critic.
He was born on January 4 (16th century) in Tula in the family of a doctor who was very popular both as a doctor and as a public figure. In this friendly family there were eight children.
Studied Veresaev in the Tula classical gymnasium, the teaching was easy, was “the first student.” Most of all he succeeded in ancient languages, he read a lot. At thirteen he began to write poetry. In 1884, seventeen years, he graduated from high school and entered the St. Petersburg University at the Faculty of History and Philology, went to the historical department. At that time he enthusiastically participated in various student circles, “living in a tense atmosphere of the most acute social, economic and ethical issues.”
In 1888 he completed his course as a candidate of historical sciences and in the same year entered the
In 1894 he received a doctor’s diploma and practiced for several months in Tula under the guidance of his father, then went to Petersburg and entered a supernumerary intern at the Barrack Hospital. In the autumn he finishes the great story “Without the Road”, published in “Russian Wealth”, where he was offered permanent cooperation. Veresaev joined the literary circle of Marxists (Struve, Maslov, Kalmykov, and others), maintained close relations with workers and revolutionary youth. In 1901 he was dismissed from the Barrack Hospital by order of the mayor and expelled from St. Petersburg. I spent two years in Tula. When the expiry date was over, he moved
Veresaev was brought to prominence by the “Notes of a Physician” (1901), created on autobiographical material.
When in 1904 the war with Japan began, Veresaev as a reserve physician was called up for military service. Returning from the war in 1906, described his impressions in the “Tales of the war.”
In 1911, on the initiative of Veresaev, the “Publishing of Writers in Moscow” was created, which he headed until 1918. During these years he spoke with literary criticism and critical research (“Living Life” is devoted to the analysis of the works of F. Dostoyevsky and L. Tolstoy). In 1917 he was chairman of the Khudvisvetskomissiya at the Moscow Soviet of Workers’ Deputies.
In September 1918 he left for the Crimea, assuming he lived there for three months, but he had to stay in the village of Koktebel, near Feodosiya, for three years. During this time the Crimea several times passes from hand to hand, the writer had to endure a lot of heavy. In 1921 he returned to Moscow. He concludes the cycle of works on the intelligentsia: novels “At the dead end” (1922) and “Sisters” (1933). He published a number of books composed of documentary, memoirs (Pushkin in Life, 1926-27, Gogol in Life, 1933, Pushkin’s Satellites, 1934-36). In 1940, his “Unreasonable stories about the past” appeared. In 1943 Veresaev was awarded the State Prize. Veresaev died in Moscow on June 3, 1945.
A short biography from the book: Russian writers and poets. A short biographical dictionary. Moscow, 2000.
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