Ivan Shmelev writer biography

Enter Ivan Shmelev. Biography of Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelev Ivan Sergeyevich Shmelev September 21 - June 24 - the greatest Russian writer. In his works, the unique world of a simple Russian person, a believing Christian, whose whole life is imbued with the gospel spirit, is heated with a children's, simple and deep faith. The writer was born in the Kadashyov Sloboda Zamoskvorechye.

The writer's father was from the merchant class. Sergei Ivanovich performed the work of the contractor, owned a large carpentry artel, held bath institutions. The family was patriarchal, religious. The boy lost his father at the age of seven, and it was his writer Shmelev that would be so often mentioned in his works. After graduating from a gymnasium, in the year Shmelev enters the law faculty of Moscow University.

Shmelev’s first story “At the Mill” appeared in the journal “Russian Review” in the year. In October, along with his young wife Olga Alexandrovna Shmelev went on a wedding trip to Valaam. After the trip, Shmelev writes the book of essays “On the Rocks of Valaam”. By order of the chief prosecutor of the Synod K. Pobedonostsev, the book was detained by censorship.

After the publication in G., however, before the first wedding trip, Shmelev and his wife visited the elder Barnabas Gepsimansky. And he blessed the writer, providing the future creative work of Ivan Sergeyevich, who will become the work of his life. After graduating from the university in the year, he underwent military service, later he served for several years as an official.

Having received a resignation in the year, Shmelev began to live in Moscow. Of particular popularity were his works written in the GG. It was published in the magazines “Russian wealth”, “Russian Thought”, in the collections of the publishing house “Knowledge” organized by M. in criticism compared this success with the debut of Fedor Mikhailovich Dostoevsky. In the year, Shmelev became a member of the new publishing house - “Book publishing of writers in Moscow” was also there I.

Bunin, B. Zaitsev, V. It was in him that the collection of his works in eight volumes came out. During the First World War, Shmelev wrote a collection of stories "Harsh Days". Shmelev accepted the February revolution enthusiastically, but by the time of the beginning of October showed true intransigence. The confusion of the writer, who also overwhelmed him in those days, is seen according to the story "Unfinished Cup." Then a cycle of seven fairy tales and written on the material of the First World War is created, he leaves for Alushta in the fall of the year.

His son Sergei returned from Denikin’s volunteer army in the year and was treated with tuberculosis in the Feodosia hospital.

In November, he was arrested by the Chekists and for about three months the sick young man spent in stuffy arresting cellars. In January, he was shot without trial and investigation. For a long time, Shmelev did not know about what had happened and hoped for the best, but in the year one person testified the death of the writer's son. The events of this time were reflected in the autobiographical story “The Sun of the Dead” at the end of the year Shmelev and his wife Olga Alexandrovna left for Berlin, from where he moved to Paris two months later.

It is often printed abroad, one after another his works of only twenty books come out. The writer had a faithful reader - a believing Russian emigration. In his works, through the description of the holidays of the Russian Orthodox Church, the joyful moments of Russian nature and Moscow antiquity, the reader is introduced to Russian spirituality. However, the writer lived the poorest among Russian emigration - the family often lacked money for heating, new clothes.

Ivan Sergeyevich did not know how and did not want to go to the rich publishers, did not look for his patrons. In the year, the writer fell ill with a severe form of gastric disease, he was supposed to operate, which he could not decide on. On the very day when the doctor said that the operation would not be needed, Ivan Sergeyevich dreamed of X -ray images and the words: “St.

Shmelev believed that it was the Monk Seraphim Sarovsky who helped him recover. After that, the writer will write the essay “The mercy of the Monk Seraphim” the experience of the miracle was reflected in many works of the writer. After the death of his wife in the year, Shmelev visited the Pskov-Pechersky Monastery, then located in Estonia. The writer himself died of a heart attack during a visit to the monastery of the Protection of the Mother of God Bussa-Anott Km from Paris in order to take a blessing to continue the work on the book “Heavenly Ways”.

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