Pleshcheeva and biography

Pleshcheev continued to write and prose. In stories and novels, he wrote about the difficult life of the city poor, the arbitrariness of landowners. In the year, a collection of prosaic works of the writer in two parts of “The Tales and Stories by A. Critics marked the social significance of those that Pleshcheyev and reproached him for old -fashionedness. Or is it a story just for exercise in the reading process?

Pleshcheeva cannot be attributed to the last category. The public element penetrates them constantly and this distinguishes from many colorless stories of the thirties and fifties. But already now there are requests to which the heroes of such stories are strongly unable to satisfy ”Nikolai Dobrolyubov, the article“ Goodness and Activities ”of the magazine“ Contemporary ”, Pleshcheev’s year also reproached for“ uncertainty ”.

The poet tried to develop his own political position and often supported opposite points of view in his works. He wrote to Dostoevsky: “It is necessary to say a new word, but where is it? The secretary of the “domestic notes” due to problems with money in the year, Alexei Pleshcheev entered the public service-became an auditor of the Moscow Control Chamber.

In the next few years, the poet almost did not engage in literature. The magazines "era", "Contemporary", "Russian Word", where it was printed, closed. Nikolai Nekrasov, the poet wrote: “It seems to me that my literary career is completely done. Sometimes, however, there is a strong desire to work, write, but all this is only impulses ... ” In the year, Pleshcheev married a second time.

Ekaterina Danilova became his wife. Even before marriage, their daughter love was born. The literary critic Nikolai Kuzin wrote about the poet’s second wife: “His kindness and affection for his new girlfriend could not replenish the feeling that, apparently, the unforgettable Elikonida Alexandrovna forever carried with her to the grave.” Soon after marriage, the poet wrote the poem “When you are stern in silence ...” and “Where are you, it's time for fun meetings ...”, which you dedicated to his first wife.

Two years later, Nekrasov invited Pleshcheev to become the secretary of the journal "Domestic Notes". Pleshcheev agreed and soon moved to Petersburg. Now I received your letter and now I am in a hurry to answer you. Of course, I am all at your service. It seems that you could not doubt that I think not only for special pleasure, but also for honor. Everything that will be written, I will send you ...

After all, right, my hands were taken away-there was no hunt to work when there was not a single tolerable magazine ... ”Alexei Pleshcheyev Nikolai Nekrasov, on December 8, soon Alexei Pleshcheyev was offered the cooperation, the editor of the Bulletin of Europe magazine Mikhail Stasyulevich. There were translations of the writer from German and French. It was printed in the newspaper Exchange Vedomosti.

At the invitation of the Moscow Office of Imperial Theaters, at the invitation of the examiners, he was present at the entrance tests at the Theater School. The poet was also a member of the artistic circle - the association of art lovers who advocated the creation of private theaters in the Russian Empire. He was also in the society of Russian dramatic writers and opera composers.

Under the impression of a meeting with students at a meeting of the artistic circle, Pleshcheyev wrote the poem “Toasts”: “Our first toast is for science! Let the light of knowledge burn with the guiding star. ”Pleshcheyev dedicated many poems to his friends. In the year, the poet wrote "I quietly walked along the deserted street ...". In the year, in the magazine “Usta”, his work “Memory of N.

After the death of Nikolai Nekrasov Alexei Pleshcheev was printed by the editor of the poetic department of“ Domestic notes ” - he selected works for publication. This work took a lot of time from the writer, but he did not leave the lesson in literature. In X Pleshcheev began to write poetry for children. In the year, the Snowman collection was published. In “Domestic Notes” they wrote about him: “If in our time it is difficult to be a poet in general due to the known features of our era, then writing poetry for children is almost even more difficult.

Pleshcheyev understands this difficulty ... He warmed the images he created by "his own inner feeling." Part of the editorial office of “Domestic Notes”, including Nikolai Mikhailovsky, was also arrested. After that, Pleshcheyev wrote the poem “Without Hopes and Expects ...”: “Without hopes and expectations, we know: he, as before, does not attend human suffering ...” In the year, “domestic notes” were closed by a special government decree.

It wrote: "The government cannot allow the further existence of the press body, which not only opens its pages to the spread of harmful ideas, but also has the closest persons belonging to the composition of secret societies." Pleshcheyev’s financial position after that worsened. He laid the Knyaginino estate, which he got from his mother. Due to the tightening of censorship, the writer's works were almost not published in large editions.

They were printed only by the low -trip “weekly review” and “theatrical world”.A year later, publicist Anna Jewinova created the Literary Journal of the Northern Herald. She invited Pleshcheev to him to the post of editor of the fiction department. The writer agreed. Pleshcheev helped novice writers. In the year, Pleshcheev celebrated the forty -year anniversary of creative activity.

He informed his friend to his friend Alexander Gatsisky about this event: “The people of all the camps were on the anniversary ... Now it’s time to die. There will be no other such in life. Young people were especially hot and sympathetic to me. ” More than a hundred people congratulated the poet at the poet’s solemn meeting. Pleshcheev was handed over an anonymous letter from the editor of the underground people's volume edition “Echoes of the Revolution”.

In it, the writer was called a teacher of revolutionaries. In the year, Alexei Pleshcheev met Anton Chekhov. The writer Ivan Leontyev recalled: “Half an hour did not pass, as the sweetest A. Pleshcheyev invited Chekhov to cooperate with the Northern Herald. Especially for the magazine, he created the story "Steppe". Pleshcheev praised Anton Chekhov: “This is such a charm, such an abyss of poetry that I can’t tell you anything else and I can’t make any remarks, except that I am in crazy delight.

This is an exciting thing, and I predict you a greater, greater future ... ” He decided to publish the Steppe in the new Northern Herald issue. However, part of the editorial office of the magazine, including the editor of the critical and scientific departments Nikolai Mikhailovsky, spoke out against. Mikhailovsky believed that Chekhov was going "on the road is not possible where and it is not good for why." In protest, he and some of the employees of the critical and scientific departments left the publication.

In the spring of the year, Pleshcheev also left the editorial office of the Northern Herald. Anna Jewinova stopped financing the magazine. She is so impudent, in such an impudent tone she allowed herself to say to me that it was worth the great effort not to scold her. How and what I will exist, I don’t know yet ”Alexey Pleshcheev Anton Chekhov, the letter of March 17, Pleshcheev was in a difficult financial situation and lost his main earnings.

His only income was translations and biographical essays for small publications. Chekhov Pleshcheev wrote: “Ah! What I would not give in order to be able to go away from journalism ... ” A few months after the closure of the Northern Herald, Alexei Pleshcheyev received an inheritance from a distant relative - millionaire Alexei Pavlovich Pleshcheev. The poet got about two million rubles, an estate, five thousand acres of more than five thousand hectares of chernozem land.

In the same year, Pleshcheev left for Paris, where he settled in the expensive hotel Mirabeau. He took up charity work. The writer established the funds named after Chernyshevsky and Belinsky to pay scholarships to poor students, donated money for the publication of the Russian Wealth magazine, and paid foreign trips to his friends. In the last years of his life, Pleshcheev traveled a lot around Europe.

In the year, in the Swiss city of Lucerne, the poet fell ill. For a while he could not walk. Pleshcheev wrote to Chekhov: “I can’t walk a lot or soon. Although I walk with a stick. ” He left for the treatment of scenes several times in Nice. On the way there, on October 8, the poet died. His body was transported to Moscow and buried in the Novodevichy cemetery.

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