Biography Criticism of Dobrolyubov

Dobrolyubov Nikolai Alexandrovich - literary critic, philosopher, publicist, poet. Born in Nizhny Novgorod in the family of a priest. His children's and youth years passed here before leaving for St. Petersburg in the year. Dobrolyubov received the initial education under the leadership of the seminarian M. Kostrov, about whom Chernyshevsky wrote: “Of all the teachers and professors, whose lessons were later listened to by Nikolai Alexandrovich, not one acquired such rights to our gratitude for the development of his brilliant abilities, like Mikhail Alekseevich.” He entered the theological school in the year, and a year later he went to the seminary.

Even then, he stood out among peers with general development and well -read. In the formation of his spiritual appearance, books played a decisive role. In the seminary, Dobrolyubov led “Register” - lists of books read, and from began to make notes and reviews about books. Dozens of people supplied him with books, in particular, a musical critic A. Malbyshev, the editor of the Nizhny Novgorod newspaper A.

Shchepotyev, who lived in the Dobrolyubov house, the family of Prince Trubetskoy, who lived there, the Nizhny Novgorod book seller N. Together with his fellow practitioner, Mitrofan Lebedev, Dobrolyubov, published the manuscript journal Akhineya, in which he sent his own poems to the magazines Moskvityan and Son of the Fatherland were not published. Dobrolyubov also wrote articles for the newspaper “Nizhny Novgorod Provincial Vedomosti”, collected local folklore of more than a thousand proverbs, sayings, songs, legends, etc.

The Nizhny Novgorod period of the life of N. Dobrolyubov became the time of searching for the main guidelines of his future life. However, upon arrival in St. Petersburg, he passed exams to the Main Pedagogical Institute at the Historical and Philology faculty, for which he was dismissed from the spiritual rank. In the spring, 7 brothers and sisters remained in the hands of an eighteen -year -old student.

Relatives and acquaintances took them into their families. Already at the end of the year, he met with N. Chernyshevsky, who attracted Dobrolyubov to cooperation in the magazine "Contemporary". Dobrolyubov brilliantly graduated from the institute, but was deprived of a gold medal for freethinking. For some time he worked as a home mentor at Prince. Kurakin, and with became a tutor in Russian literature in the 2nd Cadet Corps.

He continued to actively work in “Contemporary”: only in the city of Dobrolyubov, he already played a central role in the united department of criticism, bibliography and modern notes of “Contemporary”, influenced the choice of artistic works for publication. In - gg. Due to intensive work and unsettled life, Dobrolyubov's disease intensified. At the insistence of friends in May, he was treated for tuberculosis abroad, but improvements in his condition did not occur.

Dobrolyubov died in St. Petersburg on November 17 29. He was buried in a Volkov cemetery near the Belinsky grave. It was from the appearance of his grave that literary bridges began to take shape. The personality of Dobrolyubov, along with Belinsky and the other, who was dead critic, the sixties - Pisarev, became the banner of the revolutionary movement - and the subsequent years starting from the first biography of Dobrolyubov, written by Chernyshevsky.

In Nizhny Novgorod since the year in the outbuilding of the house of N. Dobrolyubov on the street. The October Memorial Museum has been opened. Sources of Dobrolyubov N. Orlov S. Dobrolyubov in Nizhny Novgorod. Vinogradova T. Nizhny Novgorod intelligentsia: around N. Novgorod: Volgo - Vyt. In the world of Dobrolyubov: Sat. Novgorod, Metropolsky A. Dobrolyubov - GG.

Novgorod: reproacigraphys, Dobrolyubova: Materials of Dobrolyubov.