Nikolai Nekrasov. Wounded heart

Nikolai Nekrasov was born into the family of Yaroslavl nombleman in the Podolia Governorate in the same year as another outstanding Russian writer, philosopher and publisher was born — Fedor Dostoevsky. 

Future writer spent his school years in Yaroslavl. He was impressed by unfairness of serfdom, disorder of village life, endless family disputes and hardships of peasant life. He dedicated his writings to Russian social structure. Nekrasov was well-versed in difficulties and contradictions of Russian class system, he was able to comprehend rural life and understand "the Russian soul". 

He arrived to St Petersburg in order to enter military service with the blessing of his father, but suddenly he decided to change his life and enter the Philological faculty of St Petersburg University. From this moment the active stage of the writer’s creative life begins, during which he realizes all his literary desires and tries himself in different genres. 

In the city on the Neva, the writer’s vigorous, tireless, fruitful and surprisingly enterprising publishing activity starts. He created a series of almanacs in which Dmitri Grigorovich and Fedor Dostoevsky later debuted. 

Nekrasov published «the Sovremennik» magazine, founded by Pushkin. On its’ pages Ivan Goncharov, Ivan Turgenev, Alexander Herzen received recognition, and such writers as Alexander Ostrovsky, Mikhail Saltykov-Shchedrin, Nikolai Chernyshevsky and Nikolai Dobrolyubov were published. Except for Dostoevsky, for the first time Nekrasov also brought Leo Tolstoy to the stage of Russian literature. 

Nekrasov managed to create a unique language whichin a completely unusual way combines the incongruous: vernacular and lyricism, farce and grotesque. 

The lecture will be streamed online in Russian with simultaneous translation into Spanish as part of the celebration of the 300th anniversary of SPbU — Russia’s first university.

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