The biography of Korolenko is briefly

Dmitriev, N. Novgorod, gg. In the year, he entered the St. Petersburg Technological Institute, but due to material difficulties he was forced to leave him. Soon, Vladimir managed to move to Moscow and enter the Petrovsky Agricultural Academy. During the years of study, he became interested in populist ideas and was arrested and sent to Kronstadt for organizing student performances.

At the end of the term, Korolenko returned to Petersburg again, worked as a corrector and a drawing, and entered the Mining Institute in the year. The beginning of his literary activity belongs to this period - the first short story of the writer “From the Life of the Seeker” was printed in the St. Petersburg journal “Word”. But already in the year, on suspicion of revolutionary activity, Korolenko was again arrested.

The difficult living conditions did not break the will of the writer, but became time when his literary talent was really manifested, they gave rich material for his future works. In the year, Vladimir was allowed to settle in Nizhny Novgorod, where he lived for 10 years. These are years of the heyday of creativity and the fruitful work of the writer, when the whole reading Russia spoke of him.

In the year, his first book “Essays and Stories”, which included Siberian novels, published. The most famous work of this period is “Makar's Dream”, the success of which was huge. The Siberian theme will continue in the subsequent stories of the writer. The real triumph of Korolenko was the output in the years of his best works - “in a bad society” and “blind musician”. There were also works dedicated to the Volga places and the lives of local people - “Pavlovsky essays”, “in desert places”, “behind the icon”, “the river plays” ...

At the same time, Korolenko showed himself as an active public figure. He participated in the liberal opposition, was printed a lot in the capital's publications. In the year, Korolenko’s book “In the Housing Year” was published, which was the result of the writer's energetic activity in the arrangement of free canteens for starving in the Nizhny Novgorod province.

Korolenko was an outstanding publicist and gave a lot of effort to campaigns to assist the needy, abolition of the death penalty, military service and discrimination on a national basis. The writer attracted public attention to the most acute topical issues. This was manifested in the essays and articles “Household phenomenon”, “The features of military justice”, “In a reassured village”, “Bayilis’s case” and others.

Since the year, Korolenko lived in Poltava. From a year, he began to print in separate chapters the most extensive in volume and the most important of his works - the autobiographical novel “The History of my Contemporary”, which was completely published only after the death of the writer. Korolenko met the February revolution with optimism, but he accepted the October Revolution of the year hostile.

During the civil war, he repeatedly protested against the injustice and terror of the Bolsheviks. Until the last day, the writer fought for the truth. Contemporaries called him "the conscience of Russia." Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko died on December 25 in Poltava.