GARIN N. (real name Mikhailovsky Nikolay Georgievich) (1852, St. Petersburg - 1906, ibidem). Writer, railway engineer. Graduated from Railway Engineering Institute (1878; today University of Lines of Communication, 9 Moscow Avenue - memorial plaque). He carried out research and construction works in Bessarabia, Transcaucasia, Ural, Siberia, and the Far East, in the Middle Russia, Crimea and Korea. He rarely visited St. Petersburg, but was involved in its public and literary life. In 1891 he bought the right to publish Russkoe Bogatstvo journal, was engaged in its editorship (until 1899). Stayed in Tsarskoe Selo at his sisters', in Oranzhereinaya Street, Kolpinskaya Street and Leontyevskaya Street. The trip to Tsarskoe Selo by rail train, made in the 1890s, is depicted in Garin-Mikhailovsky's short story Affairs. Garin-Mikhailovsky's main work is autobiographical tetralogy (Tema's Childhood, Gymnasia Pupils, Students, Engineers) - an analytical story-exploration of four epochs of a man and his generation's life. The Students is set in St. Petersburg. Garin died of heart failure at editors' meeting of Marxist journal Vestnik Zhizni, in publishing of which he took part. Buried at Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 198-207.

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