Pomyalovsky N.G. (1835-1863), writer

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POMYALOVSKY Nikolay Gerasimovich (1835, St. Petersburg - 1863, at the same place), writer. He was born into a family of a deacon of Church on Malaya Okhta (the Malaya Okhta of that time assumed a colourful description in Pomyalovsky's sketch Porechye Residents, 1863). He studied at Alexander Nevsky Theological School (1843-51) and St. Petersburg Theological Seminary (1851-57); he writes about his years of study in Sketches of Life in a Seminary (1862-63). Later Pomyalovsky went to lectures at Petersburg University. From 1860 he taught at one of free Sunday schools located by Shlisselburgskaya Zastava. K.D. Ushinsky offered him a job of a teacher of Russian at Smolny Institute, but Pomyalovsky refused the appointment. He appeared in the press from 1859. In 1861 he approached the editorial staff of Sovremennik, where he published The Fortune of Petty Bourgeoisie and Molotov (1861). This work conveys a purely St. Petersburg spirit, and its characters inhabit the same district of St. Petersburg, as those of Dostoevsky's St. Petersburg novels. The novel Brother and Sister (unfinished) was to be set in the same surroundings. Pomyalovsky spent most of his life at Malaya Okhta. He was buried at Malookhtinskoe cemetery; in 1944 the tombstone together with his remains were moved to Literatorskie Mostki. The funeral of Pomyalovsky was a noted event in the literary life of St. Petersburg. In 1913 the name of Pomyalovsky was attached to the former Ogradnaya Street, which ran along Malookhtinskoe cemetery (the street was eliminated during the reconstruction of the district). From 1962 former Suvorovskaya Street at Malaya Okhta has been bearing the name of Pomyalovsky.

References: Ямпольский И. Г. Н. Г. Помяловский: Личность и творчество. М.; Л., 1968; Муратов А. Б. Русский разночинец в Петербурге: (Н. Г. Помяловский) // Мир рус. слова. 2003. №1. С. 61-68.

A. B. Muratov. Dostoevsky Fedor Mikhailovich
Pomyalovsky Nikolay Gerasimovich
Ushinsky Konstantin Dmitrievich
Pomyalovsky St./Saint Petersburg, city
Ямпольский И. Г. Н. Г. Помяловский: Личность и творчество. М.- Л., 1968
Муратов А. Б. Русский разночинец в Петербурге: (Н. Г. Помяловский) // Мир рус. слова, 2003 Sovremennik (Contemporary), journal
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis