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hidden Monuments of history and culture | Malaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 14 hidden Shishkov V.Y. (1873-1945), writer | |
SHISHKOV Vyacheslav Yakovlevich (1873-1945), writer. In 1891 he graduated from Vyshny Volochek technical school. He started to publish his works from 1908, although he personally considered his literary debut to have occurred in 1912 ... | | SHISHKOV Vyacheslav Yakovlevich (1873-1945), writer. In 1891 he graduated from Vyshny Volochek technical school. He started to publish his works from 1908, although he personally considered his literary debut to have occurred in 1912, when Zavety journal published his story They Have Prayed; that was also the time when he first visited St. Petersburg and met Ivanov-Razumnik, A.M. Remizov and other writers. In the winter of 1914 he met M. Gorky in St. Petersburg. A year later he moved to Petrograd to serve at the Ministry of Transport Communications. In 1916 he published his first major work Taiga in Letopis journal. From 1917 he had devoted himself exclusively to literary activity. He used to travel much; in 1927-41 he lived in Detskoe Selo (Pushkin), where he worked on his narrative The Wanderers (Leningrad, 1932), novel Ugryum-River (came out in a separate edition in Leningrad, 1933), the first part of the novel Emelyan Pugachev ( Leningrad, 1941 separate edition; the Stalin Prize of 1946, for all three volumes). The latter novel, in particular, vividly portrays the life of St. Petersburg in the second half of the 18th century. Shishkov's Fridays were attended by A.N. Tolstoy, A. Bely, K.A. Fedin, P.P. Soykin, K.S. Petrov-Vodkin, O.D. Forsh, A.A. Prokofiev, V.A. Kaverin, N.S. Tikhonov, M.L. Slonimsky et al. During the siege he appeared in press and on the air. In 1942 Shishkov was evacuated. While in Detskoe Selo, he lived at 14 Malaya Street (the building was not preserved) in 1927-29, at 9 Moskovskaya Street (memorial plaque) in 1929-41; in Leningrad, in 1941-42 he resided at 9 Griboedova Canal Embankment (memorial plaque). The name Shishkov was given to a Street in Pushkin (Vyacheslava Shishkova Street). References: Раковский Л. Вячеслав Шишков // Белые ночи: О тех, кто прославил город на Неве. Л., 1971. [Вып. 1]. С. 247-255; Воспоминания о В. Шишкове. М., 1979; Бунатян Г. Г. Город муз: Лит. памят. места г. Пушкина. СПб., 2001. С. 290-308. D. N. Cherdakov.
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January. The writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov settled in Detskoye Selo. His addresses: 20 Kolpinskaya Street, 14 Malaya Street, and 9 Moskovskaya Street from 1929 untill 1941 (the memorial plaque was set here in 1961) ... | | January. The writer Vyacheslav Yakovlevich Shishkov settled in Detskoye Selo. His addresses: 20 Kolpinskaya Street, 14 Malaya Street, and 9 Moskovskaya Street from 1929 untill 1941 (the memorial plaque was set here in 1961). Here the writer finished the story "Stranniki" ("Pilgrims"), worked on the manuscript of "Yemelyan Pugachov", finished the novel "Ugryum-reka" ("The Ugryum River") in 1932. In Detskoye Selo in July of 1927 the writer got married Klavdia Mikhailovna Shvedova, who became his faithful friend for whole further life. On Fridays V.Ya. Shishkov's house was visited by the wide circle of the Detskoye Selo intelligentsia: writers A. Tolstoy, A. Bely, O.D. Forsh, critic R. Ivanov-Razumnik, the painter K. Petrov-Vodkin, the publisher P. Soykin, the scientist M. Bonch-Bruyevich, composers Yu. Shaporin and G. Popov, the singer I. Yershov and many other representatives of the art intelligentsia of Leningrad. The summer. The painter K.S. Petrov-Vodkin settled in the first floor of the Lyceum building. In 1928 the painter finished to paint the picture "Smert komissara" ("The Death of the Comissar"), on 4 October 1930 Petrov-Vodkin was awarded the title of the Honoured Artist of RSFSR. K. Petrov-Vodkin lived in Detskoye Selo untill 1936. The first edition of the "epoch-making" Tsarskoye Selo book "Gorod muz" ("The Town of Muses") by Erikh Fiedorovich Gollerbakch was published. The literary critic V.A. Manuylov, the author of books about M.Yu. Lermontov, rented a room in the former house of the Gumilyovs in Malaya Street.
Persons Bely Andrey (real name Bugaev Boris Nikolaevich) Bonch-Bruevich Mikhail Alexandrovich Ershov Ivan Vasilievich Forsh Olga Dmitrievna Hollerbach Erich Fedorovich Ivanov-Razumnik (real name Razumnik Vasilievich Ivanov) Manuylov Viktor Andronikovich Petrov-Vodkin Kuzma Sergeevich Popov Gavriil Nikolaevich Shaporin Yury Alexandrovich Shishkov Alexander Semenovich Shvedova, Klavdia Mikhaylovna Soykin Peter Petrovich Tolstoy Alexey Nikolaevich
Addresses Malaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 14 Malaya Street/Pushkin, town Moskovskaya Street/Pushkin, town, house 9 Pushkin, town
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