Uspensky, NV - Uspensky

…The son of a poor civil servant, he dropped out of both St. Petersburg and Moscow universities for financial reasons. Influenced by his cousin, the writer Nikolai V. Uspenskii (1837-89), he began his career as a writer in 1862. Following the tradition of naturalistic realism that had been passed down since Gogol, he published works such as “Encounter in the Village” (1865), “Manners of Rastelyaeva Street” (1866), and “Down” (1869), which depicted the miserable lives of the lower classes living in rural areas and on the outskirts of cities, in democratic magazines of the time, and received high praise. …

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…貧しい官吏の子として生まれ，ペテルブルグ，モスクワ両大学をいずれも経済的理由で退学。いとこの作家ウスペンスキーNikolai V.Uspenskii(1837‐89)の影響もあって，1862年に作家活動に入る。ゴーゴリ以来の自然派のリアリズムの伝統をひきつぎ，農村や都会の片隅に生きる下層民の悲惨な生活を描いた《村の出合い》(1865)，《ラステリャーエワ街の風俗》(1866)，《零落》(1869)などの作品を，当時の民主派の雑誌に発表し，高い評価を受ける。…

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