Korolenko V. G. (1853-1921), writer

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KOROLENKO Vladimir Galaktionovich (1853-1921), prose writer, publicist, public figure, honorary member of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1900; in 1902 along with Anton Chekhov laid down the title of academician in the protest against the withdrawal of Gorky's candidature as an academy member). In 1871-73, 1877-79, 1896-1900 uninterruptedly lived in St. Petersburg. Repeatedly sought to receive university education in the St. Petersburg Technological Institute (1871-73) and the Mining Institute (1877). In 1876 lived in Kronstadt under police overt surveillance for participation in the student unrest in the Petrovsky Academy (Moscow). The story At-Davan contain recollections of the Kronstadt period (1892). In 1879 Korolenko was arrested on the grounds of political unreliability and exiled to Siberia (until 1885). In 1892 visited St. Petersburg for the Russkoe Bogatstvo journal, and returned in 1896 for permanent residence. Along with N. K. Mikhaylovsky and N. F. Annensky was one of the co-editors of the Russkoe Bogatstvo, (in 1894 became a member of the journal's editorial committee), from 1895 acting as editor until its suppression in 1918. From 1898 Sketches and Stories and Korolenko's other books appeared in the journal's press. By 1914 A. F. Marx's publishing house published Korolenko's collected works in nine volumes. After 1900 Korolenko visited St. Petersburg occasionally for the journal's business. The events of the Bloody Sunday were reflected in his article Ninth of January in St. Petersburg. In his second autobiographic work The History of My Contemporary Korolenko described his first (1870s) St. Petersburg life period. From 1896 he lived in a wooden house (today Ligovsky Avenue, section of house 8) and 9/1 Baskovaya (today Korolenko) Street.

References: Аверин Б. В. Владимир Короленко // История русской литературы: В 4 т. Л., 1983. Т. 4. С. 143-176; Бялый Г. А. В. Г. Короленко. 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. Л., 1983.

I. E. Vasilyeva. Annensky Innokenty Fedorovich
Chekhov Anton Pavlovich
Gorky Maxim (Alexey Maximovich Peshkov)
Korolenko Vladimir Galaktionovich
Marx Adolf Fedorovich
Mikhaylovsky Nikolay Konstantinovich
Korolenko St./Saint Petersburg, city, house 9/1
Ligovsky Ave/Saint Petersburg, city, house 8
Бялый Г. А. В. Г. Короленко. 2-е изд., перераб. и доп. Л., 1983
Аверин Б. В. Владимир Короленко // История русской литературы: В 4 т. Л., 1983 Russian Academy of Sciences
Russkoe Bogatstvo (The Russian Wealth), journal, 1876-1918