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Nikolay Nekrasov

In this article, the patronymic is Alexeyevich and the family name is Nekrasov.

Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈkrasəf] ( listen), 10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1821 – 8 January 1878 [O.S. 27 December 1877]) was a Russian poet, writer, critic, and publisher. He made very compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry. These poems made him popular around liberal and radical intellectuals of the 1800s. He was one of the first Russians to use ternary meters and dramatic monologue.[2] He edited many literary journals, such as Sovremennik.[3]

Nikolay Nekrasov
Nekrasov in 1870
Nekrasov in 1870
BornNikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov
10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1821[1]
Nemyriv, Bratslavsky Uyezd, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire[1]
Died8 January 1878 [O.S. 27 December 1877] (aged 56)[1]
Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire[1]
OccupationPoet, publisher
LanguageRussian
NationalityRussian
SpouseFyokla Viktorova
Signature
Portrait of Nikolai Nekrasov by Nikolai Ge, 1872.

Important works

Poetry

  • "The Money-lender" (Rostovshchik, 1844)
  • "On the Road" (V doroge, 1845)
  • "Motherland" (1846)
  • "The Doghunt" (Psovaya okhota, 1846)
  • On the Street (Na Ulitse, 1850), 4 poems cycle
  • "The Fine Match" (Prekrasnaya partia, 1852)
  • "Unmowed Line" (Neszhataya polosa, 1854)
  • "Vlas" (1855)
  • "V.G. Belinsky" (1855)
  • Sasha (1855)
  • "The Forgotten Village" (Zabytaya derevnya, 1855)
  • "Musings at the Front Door" (Razmyshlenya u paradnovo pod’ezda, 1858)
  • "The Unhappy Ones (Neschastnye, 1856)
  • "The Poet and the Citizen" (Poet i grazhdanin, 1856)
  • "Silence" (Tishina, 1857)
  • "The Song for Yeryomushka" (Pesnya Yeryomushke, 1859)
  • Korobeiniki (1861)
  • "The Funeral" (Pokhorony, 1861)
  • "Peasant Children" (Krestyanskiye deti, 1861)
  • "A Knight for An Hour" (Rytsar na thas, 1862)
  • "Green Roar" (Zelyony shum, 1862)
  • "Orina, the Soldier's Mother" (Orina, mat soldatskaya, 1863)
  • The Railway (Zheleznaya doroga, 1864)
  • "Grandfather Frost the Red Nose" (Moroz, Krasny nos, 1864)
  • Contemporaries (Sovremenniki, 1865)
  • Songs of the Free Word (Pesni svobodnovo slova, 1865–1866)
  • Poems for Russian Children (Stikhotvorenya, posvyashchyonnye russkim detyam, 1867–1873)
  • "The Bear Hunt. Scenes from the lyrical comedy" (Medvezhya okhota, 1867)
  • Grandfather (Dedushka, 1870)
  • "The Recent Times" (Nedavneye vremya, 1871)
  • Russian Women (Russkiye zhenshchiny: 1872–1873), a dilogy
  • "The Morning" (Utro, 1873)
  • "The Horrible Year" (Strashny god, 1874)
  • The Last Songs (Poslednye pesni, 1877), a cycle
  • Who Is Happy in Russia? (Komu na Rusi zhit khorosho, 1863–1876)

Plays

  • There is No Hiding a Needle in a Sack (Shila v meshke ne utayich, 1841)

Fiction

  • The Life and Adventures of Tikhon Trostnikov (Zhizn i pokhozhdenya Tikhona Trostnikova, 1843–1848) – autobiographical novel, unfinished

Nikolay Nekrasov Media

  • Every summer Nekrasov would go hunting to his brother's estate of Karabikha near Yaroslavl (now a memorial museum).

  • Nekrasov and Panayev visiting sick Belinsky. By A.Naumov

  • Out of copyright image of N.A. Nekrasov (1821-1878).

  • Nekrasov in late 1877. Portrait by Ivan Kramskoy

  • Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva

  • Зинаида Николаевна Некрасова (1847-1914) — супруга русского поэта Николая Алексеевича Некрасова

  • Некрасов Н. А. (фото Тулинова, 1861) из коллекции Государственного литературно-мемориального музея-заповедника "Карабиха"

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Nikolay Alekseyevich Nekrasov. Encyclopaedia Britannica.
  2. ↑ Cizevskij, Dmitrij (1974). History of Nineteenth-Century Russian Literature. Vanderbilt University Press. p. 104. ISBN 0826511880
  3. ↑ Zhdanov, Vladimir (1971). "Nekrasov". Molodaya Gvardiya Publishers. ЖЗЛ (The Lives of Distinguished People) series. Retrieved 13 January 2014.

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