Butko Yakov Petrovich( Writer)
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Biography Butko Yakov Petrovich
(d. 1856). By origin tradesman, a self-taught, 20-year-old arrived in the capital, it works like Krayevsky, which prints them in his journal. With conscription, as a non-privileged, had to go to the soldiers, but Krajewski considered profitable to buy him a receipt recruiting with a deduction of the loan fee. The poor, downtrodden, shy by nature, Butkov found themselves in bondage to the publisher and treated him as to any other authorities, with the obsequious deference, visiting in the evening only because he feared the wrath of the publisher. But especially Butkov feared and trembled before the chairman of the censorship committee Musin-Pushkin, which is particularly slighted meschaninishku who dared to one of his stories called petty bureaucratic people paltry people. Gen. clerk of petty officialdom Butkov knew himself, yutyas in attics and lofts, vivid and boldly depicted in the tops of Petersburg (St. Petersburg, 1845 - 1846 years, 2 parts) the life of "the dark man on Nevsky Prospekt". Belinsky recognized authors of these works in the mind, . observation, . places wit and humor of, . seen in the essays Butkova heart, . already understands compassionate neighbor, . hoped, . the author of imitation Gogol will be able to go to independent creativity, . But a small gift Butkova withered, . and he died in poverty, . not having had time to rise from the ranks of minor "naturalists" 40-ies his works, . and his personality lost among much he liked and even impressed on him a certain respectful awe "of the generals Literature, . The most complete personal characteristics Butkova in A. Milyukova, "Literary meeting and dating", a list of literature about him in Vengerov, Power Dictionary ". S. Sh
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