Andreev, Leonid Nikolaevich

Japanese: アンドレーエフ（英語表記）Andreev， Leonid Nikolaevich

Born: August 21, 1871, Oryol
[Died] September 12, 1919. Neivala, Finland. Russian novelist. Born into a family of surveyors, he worked hard to graduate from the law faculty of Moscow University. He opened a practice as a lawyer, but it didn't work out, so he began to make a living as a writer, a profession he had been involved in since his student days. His Bergamot i Garas'ka (1898), which shows sympathy for the little people, caught the eye of Gorky, who recommended him to join the Znanie literary group. He published a rapid succession of works, including Molchanie (1901), Once Upon a Time (Zhili byli) (01), Stena (01), In the Fog (V tumane) (02), Mysl' (02), and Bezdna (02), becoming one of the leading novelists in Russia in the early 20th century. He fled to Finland due to his hostility towards the October Revolution of 1917, and died there. After the Thaw, his work was reevaluated. His main works include Zhizn' Vasiliya Fiveiskogo (03), Krasnyi smekh (04), the trilogy of plays K zvezdam (05), Zhizn' cheloveka (06), Savva (06), and his greatest work Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh (08).

Andreev
Andreev, Vyacheslav Andreevich

[Born] 1890
[Died] 1945
Soviet sculptor. Major work: Monument to the Soviet Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair.

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Japanese:

[生]1871.8.21. オリョール
[没]1919.9.12. フィンランド，ネイバラ
ロシアの小説家。測量技師の家に生れ，苦学しながらモスクワ大学法学部を卒業。弁護士を開業したが，うまくゆかず，学生時代から手を染めていた文筆で生計を立てはじめた。ちっぽけな人間への同情を示した『ベルガモートとガラーシカ』 Bergamot i Garas'ka (1898) がゴーリキーの目に留まり，彼の推薦で『ズナーニエ』派の文学グループに入り，『沈黙』 Molchanie (1901) ，『むかしむかし』 Zhili byli (01) をはじめ，『壁』 Stena (01) ，『霧の中』V tumane (02) ，『思想』 Mysl' (02) ，『深淵』 Bezdna (02) などの作品を矢つぎばやに発表して，20世紀初頭のロシアにおける一流小説家になった。 1917年の十月革命に敵意をいだいてフィンランドへ亡命，そこで死亡。「雪どけ」後，再評価されている。おもな作品には『ワシーリイ・フィベイスキーの一生』 Zhizn' Vasiliya Fiveiskogo (03) ，『赤い笑い』 Krasnyi smekh (04) ，戯曲3部作『星の世界へ』K zvezdam (05) ，『人間の一生』 Zhizn' cheloveka (06) ，『サッバ』 Savva (06) などのほか，彼の最大傑作である『七死刑囚物語』 Rasskaz o semi poveshennykh (08) がある。