Mikhail Prishvin

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Mikhail Prishvin
Mikhail Prishvin

Mikhail Mikhailovich Prishvin (Russian: Михаил Михайлович Пришвин) (January 23 (N.S. February 4), 1873 - January 16, 1954, Moscow) was a Russian/Soviet writer.

Mikhail Prishvin was born into a family of a merchant in what is now Lipetsk Oblast. In 1893-1897, he studied at a polytechnic school in Riga and was once arrested for his involvement with the Marxist circles. In 1902, Prishvin graduated from Leipzig University with a degree in agronomics. During the World War I, he worked as a military journalist. After the war, Prishvin was employed as a publicist and then a rural teacher. He began writing for magazines in 1898, but his first short story was published in 1906. Prishvin's works are full of poetics, exceptional keenness of observation, and trustworthiness in describing nature. Many of his works were translated in different languages and became part of the gold fund of the Soviet children's literature. Mikhail Prishvin was awarded two orders.

[edit] Selected works

  • В краю непуганых птиц (In the Land of Unfrightened Birds, 1907)
  • За волшебным колобком (The Bun, 1908)
  • У стен града невидимого (1909) - selected works
  • Чёрный араб (1910)
  • Славны бубны (1913)
  • Башмаки (1923)
  • Родники Берендея (1925-26)
  • Женьшень (Jen Sheng: The Root of Life, 1933)
  • Фацелия (1940)
  • Лесная капель (Drops from the Forest, 1943) - selected works
  • Кладовая Солнца (1945)
  • Осударева дорога (1957)
  • Корабельная чаща (1954)
  • Кащеева цепь (The Chain of Kashchey, 1960)