Andreev L.N. (1871-1919), writer

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ANDREEV Leonid Nikolaevich (1871-1919, Navol's house, near Mustamyaka, Finland; today Gorkovskoe Village of Leningrad Region), writer, dramatist. In 1891 he entered Faculty of Law of Petersburg University (dismissed for non-payment), in 1893 transferred to Faculty of Law of Moscow University (graduated in 1897). Andreev's first collection of stories was published by M. Gorky in Petersburg, in Znanie publishing house in 1901. Later Andreev participated in Znanie collections on a regular basis (among the works published there, are: The Life of Vasily Fiveisky, a novel, 1904; Red Laugh, short story, 1905; To the Stars, drama, 1906; Judas Iscariot and Others, story, 1907, etc.). On visiting St. Petersburg he joined writers meetings, organised around the publishing house. From 1907 he had been an editor of Shipovnik publishing house almanacs (where he published among others: Darkness, 1907; A Story of Seven Hangmen, 1908, short stories, The Black Mask drama, 1908, etc.). He organised literaterary Wednesdays in his flat (13 Kamenoostrovsky Avenue; memorial plaque) in 1907-08, which were visited by A.A. Blok, A.L. Volynsky, F.Sologub, G.I. Chulkov, I.A. Bunin, et al. Andreev's plays were successfully staged in the Alexanderinsky Theatre and Komissarzhevsky Theatre (for example, the First Permanent Drama The Life of a Man, Komissarzhevsky Theatre, 1907, director V.E. Meyerhold). He was published in Zhurnal Dlya Vsekh, Zhizn, Russkoe bogatstvo journals, Russkaya volya newspaper, and others. Andreev's collected edition was published in St. Petersburg in 13 volumes (1911-13) and in 8 volumes (1913). From 1908 Andreev permanently lived in his Finnish house at Vammelsu Village (not preserved, today Serovo Village near Zelenogorsk). The original artistic system of Andreev is distinguished by its fixation on metaphysico-tragical themes, developed from a criticism of realism in his early period towards expressionism in the late period of creativity. He was fond of painting; exhibited in St. Petersburg at Exhibition of Independents (1913). In St. Petersburg he lived at 25 Sixth Line of Vasilievsky Island, at 23 Fourth Line of Vasilievsky Island, at 35 Kamennoostrovsky Avenue. He was buried at Vammelsu; in 1956 the ashes were reburied at Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Афонин Л. Н. Леонид Андреев. Орел, 1959; Берлина М. С. Пьесы Леонида Андреева на Александринской сцене // Русский театр и драматургия 1907-1917 гг.: Сб. науч. тр. Л., 1988. С. 68-93; Дрозда М. Леонид Андреев // Russ. lit. Amsterdam, 1994. Vol. 35, № 3/4. P. 447-464; Кен Л. Н. Петербург - Петроград в жизни Леонида Андреева // История Петербурга. 2002. № 1-2.

D. N. Akhapkin. Andreev Leonid Nikolaevich
Blok G.P.
Bunin Ivan Alexeevich
Chulkov Georgy Ivanovich
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Komissarzhevskaya Vera Fedorovna
Meyerhold Vsevolod Emilievich
Sologub Fedor (real name Teternikov Fedor Kuzmich)
Volynsky (Flexer) Akim Lvovich
4th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 23
6th Line of Vasilievsky Island/Saint Petersburg, city, house 25
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 35
Kamennoostrovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 13
Афонин Л. Н. Леонид Андреев. Орёл, 1959
Дрозда М. Леонид Андреев // Russ. lit. Amsterdam, 1994
Берлина М. С. Пьесы Леонида Андреева на Александринской сцене // Русский театр и драматургия 1907-1917 годов: Сб. науч. тр. Л., 1988
Кен Л. Н. Петербург - Петроград в жизни Леонида Андреева // История Петербурга, 2002 Knowledge, publishing house, 1898-1913
Brier, publishing house, 1906-22
Alexandrinsky Theatre
Komissarzhevskaya Theatre
Komissarzhevskaya Theatre
Zhizn (Life), journal
Russkoe Bogatstvo (The Russian Wealth), journal, 1876-1918
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis