Alexey Tolstoy Wikipedia Biography

Born: September 5, the author of soulful lyrics, with a pronounced musical beginning, psychological short stories in poetry. Together with the Zhemchuzhnikov brothers, he created a parody image of Kozma Prutkov. Corresponding Member of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences. Belonged to the children's environment of the heir to the throne, the future Emperor Alexander II.

Father - Count Konstantin Petrovich Tolstoy. Mother - Anna Alekseevna Perovskaya, the pupil of Count A. Razumovsky, diverged her husband immediately after the birth of ... a child. The boy was brought up by his mother’s uncle, Alexei Perovsky, a writer known under the pseudonym Anthony Pogorelsky. He received a good home education, from years he was taken abroad, where he visited Goethe and Alyosha had a chance to sit on his knees.

In the year of Alexei Tolstoy, his journey in Italy was determined by the “student” to the Moscow Archive of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. In the same year, he met at the evening of Zhukovsky with N. to passed the exam for the course of the verbal department at Moscow University. From G. in the year he was admitted to the service in St. Petersburg at the tsarist court, appointed an official in the office under the law, and received the court rank of a chamber junker.

At the end of the X - beginning of the x. Tolstoy was written in French two fantastic stories - “The Family of the Vurdalak” and “Meeting in three hundred years”. In May, he first performed in the press, publishing a fantastic story “Ghoul” under the pseudonym “Krasnorogsky” with a separate book. V. Belinsky, who saw in it, “all the signs of still too young, but, nevertheless, of a wonderful talent”, responded very benevolently.

In E, along with their cousins, the pearl brothers creates the image of Kozma Prutkov, on behalf of which they perform with literary parodies and satires. These years were the most fruitful in the work of the writer. Their marriage was officially registered only in the year, because after resigning from the service in the year, Tolstoy only occasionally visited the capital.

He lived in the Pustynka estate on the banks of the Tosny River near St. Petersburg or even more far from the capital of the Red Rog of the Chernihiv province, the Mglinsky district. In the x It was printed in the magazines "Contemporary", "Russian Bulletin", "Bulletin of Europe", etc. The collection of poems was published in the city of the last years of life Tolstoy suffered from a disorder of nerves, alleviating the pain of morphine techniques.

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