Biography of Andreev
Leonid Andreev Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev was born in Orel in the wealthy family of the landser-tacter Nikolai Ivanovich Andreev-and Anastasia Nikolaevna Andreeva Patskovskaya-the daughter of a ruined Polish landowner. Since childhood, he showed interest in reading. He studied at the Oryol classical gymnasium - he was fond of the work of Schopenhauer and Hartmann. Youth impressionability and developed imagination several times encouraged him for reckless acts: at the age of 17, he decided to experience his willpower and lay between the rails in front of the approaching steam locomotive, but remained unharmed.
After graduating from the gymnasium, Andreev entered the law faculty of St. Petersburg University; After the death of his father, his family’s material situation worsened, and Andreev himself began to abuse alcohol. At one time, Andreev even had to starve. In St. Petersburg, I tried to write my first stories, but in the editorial office, as Andreev recalls in his memoirs, they were returned with a laugh.
Dedicated for non -payment, he entered the law faculty of Moscow University. In Moscow, according to Andreev himself: “It was better to live material: comrades and the committee helped.” In the city, the consequence of an unsuccessful shot was church repentance and heart disease, which subsequently caused the death of the writer. After this incident, Leonid Andreev was again forced to poor: now he needed to feed his mother, his sisters and brothers who went to Moscow.
Interrupted by random earnings, teaching and drawing portraits to order. He did not participate in political activity. He successfully passed the final exams at the university, which opened his way in the advocacy, which he was engaged in the same year begins his journalistic activity in the Moscow Bulletin and Courier newspaper. He signed his feuilletons with the pseudonym James Lynch.
According to Andreev, the story was a imitation of Dickens, but Maxim Gorky noted the young author, who invited Andreev to the book publishing partnership “Knowledge”, uniting many young writers. Real Glory came to Andreev after the publication in the city He marries A. Veligorskaya - the grandchildren of Taras Shevchenko - to Andreev. Leonid Andreev becomes the editor of the Courier.
In the same year, he was forced to give the police a recognizance not to leave because of his connection with a revolutionary student. In the same year, thanks to the help of Maxim Gorky, the first volume of his works was released with a large circulation. During these years, the orientation of creativity and its literary manner were indicated. In the same year, he will write the story “Governor”, who became a response to the murder of February 17, Socialist-Revolutionary I.
Kalyaev, Moscow General Grand Duke Sergey Alexandrovich. In November, the writer was forced to leave for Germany, where his wife was buried in Moscow in the cemetery of the Novodevichy Monastery from childbirth. Until the end of revolutionary unrest remained at Capri, Italy was visiting M. after the beginning of the reaction in Andreev was disappointed in the revolution itself.
He departs from the revolutionaryly configured the writer's environment of Gorky. He moves to Andreev to his own house in the Finland village of Vammels. At the Villa "advance" the name was chosen due to the fact that the house was built on the forefront from the publisher Leonid Andreev writes his first dramatic works. The beginning of the First World War, Leonid Andreev met with enthusiasm: during the war, Andreev publishes a drama with the Anti-German, chauvinistic content "King, Law and Freedom." However, the writer's works at that time are dedicated mainly not to the war, but by the philistine life, the theme of the “little man”.
After the February Revolution, G. did not accept the October Revolution and did not understand. After the Finland was separated from Russia, he was in exile. The last works of the writer are imbued with pessimism and hatred of the Bolshevik power “Diary of Satan”, “SOS”. He was buried in Marioki, not far from the grave of Krestovsky. Books of the author:.