| Karonin-Petropavlovsky | |
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| Born | October 17, 1853 Samara, Russia |
| Died | May 24, 1892 (aged 38) Saratov, Russia |
Nikolay Elpidiforovich Karonin-Petropavlovsky (Russian: Николай Елпидифорович Каронин-Петропавловский), October 17, 1853 – May 24, 1892, was a Russian writer. His real name was Nikolay Petropavlovsky; his pen name was S. Karonin. A number of later Russian sources refer to him as Nikolay Karonin-Petropavlovsky.[1][2]
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Nikolay Petropavlovsky was born in Samara province, where his father was a village priest. His father provided him with his primary education. He then studied at a seminary, and a grammar school, from which he was expelled for populist activities. After his first arrest in 1874, he spent three and a half years in confinement, which had a negative effect on his health. He was arrested again subsequently, and exiled to Siberia. He published his first story The Mute (1879) in Otechestvennye Zapiski (Annals of the Fatherland). His works deal largely with the issues of the Russian peasants, and with lower-class intellectuals, whose purpose he felt it was to devote themselves to the people.[1][2]
In an article on Karonin-Petropavlovsky, Maxim Gorky wrote: "That man was amazingly pure... I don't think he noticed how he lived, since he was completely preoccupied with his search for truth and justice." [2]