In the book of a famous literary critic and historian B.F. Egorov, for the first time for a wide reader, the life path of one of the most difficult figures of Russian culture Apollo Aleksandrovich Grigoryev (1822-1864), a wonderful poet, a prose writer, literary and theatrical critic, publicist is revealed in detail and popular. Widely known only by his “gypsy” songs (“Oh, speak at least with me …” and “Two guitars, having called …”), he was still an outstanding critic of the mid -19th century (Turgenev compared him to Belinsky), the author of interesting memories, a talented outline. A man of indefatigable passions, he did not know the measure in love, in friendship, in alcohol, often fell into ideological extremes (was a Mason, a revolutionary, a conservative, a Slavophile, a “soil”), and honestly refused “extremism”. According to the contradictions of life and work, Grigoryev can compare with N.S. Zleskov and V.V. Rozanov.
Author
Egorov Boris Fedorovich
Editor
Yarikova O.I.
Publisher
Young Guard, 2000
Series
The life of wonderful people
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