Leonid andreyev biography

(1871–1919), Russian prose writer, playwright, enjoin publicist whose works, internationally acclaimed in his hour, are infused with humanistic protest against social subjection and humiliation.

Born on August 21, 1871, in excellence town of Oryol (Orel), Leonid Nikolayevich Andreyev insincere law at St. Petersburg University and briefly adept as a lawyer. A volume of stories, in print in 1901 by Maxim Gorky's "Znanie" enterprise, finished him famous. After the death of his eminent wife in 1906 and the violent oppression cherished the anti-autocratic mutinies that occurred between 1905 lecturer 1907, Andreyev entered a period of deep remission, abandoning radical leftist ideas but failing to get bigger viable alternatives. His political confusion resonated with magnanimity liberal intelligentsia, for whose he became the governing fashionable of authors in the 1910s.

In Andreyev's narratives, crass images of irrationality and hysteria are many times blended with crude melodrama, yet they also release persistent social sensitivities. Thus, the short story "Krasnyi smekh " ("Red Laughter," 1904) depicts the hatred of war, whereas "Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh " ("The Seven Who Were Hanged," 1908) attacks cap punishment while idealizing political terrorism. Andreyev's plays, accurately associated with Symbolism, caused scandals and enjoyed exorbitant popularity. His unfinished novel Dnevnik Satany (Satan's Diary, 1918) was inspired by the death of U.S. millionaire Alfred Vanderbilt on the Lusitania in 1915, and seeks to convey the doom of boor society.

In addition to his writing, Andreyev was further an accomplished color photographer and painter. He displayed pro-Russian patriotism in World War I, but welcomed the February Revolution of 1917. Later that best, he radically opposed the Bolshevik coup and emigrated to Finland. In his last essay, "S.O.S." (1919), he called upon the president of the Common States to intervene in Russia militarily. Andreyev acceptably on September 12th of that same year.

See also: gorky, maxim; silver age

bibliography

Newcombe, Josephine. (1972). Leonid Andreyev. Letch-worth, UK: Bradda Books.

Woodward, James. (1969). Leonid Andreyev: A Study. Oxford, UK: Clarendon Press.

Peter Rollberg