Nick Akhsharumov Dimitrijevic

Born December 3, 1819, graduated from the course at the Tsarskoe Selo Lyceum, he served in the Office of the Ministry of War, but soon resigned, while listening to university lectures and attended drawing classes of the Academy of Fine Arts. Debuted A. in 1850 and placed in the "Notes of the Fatherland" story "The Double" and then print a lot of stories, . novels and critical articles in various publications (Fatherland Notes, . Epoch, . Russian Messenger, . "World Work", . Zarya, . New Times, . Niva, . Journal Europe, . Journal of Fine Arts),
. The writer of a small talent, and moderately liberal warehouse, educated in the rights and literary notions of the forties and a few funky sixties, A. supplied to the magazines quite diverse political direction entertaining reading. His novels and stories, with a very shallow psychological development, with a primitive depiction of characters, read "average" public solely for the sake of more or less interesting story, which is a. built on the phantasmagoria, in a crime, in psychiatry, in unnaturally volcanic passionate; story he always artificial, situation - melodramatic, the truth of life little. From his works particularly enjoyed success in his time "someone else's name", "abstruse case" (the best thing AA), "Forest Citizens", "wiser", "Mandarin". As a critic, AA, are not possessed of a bright definite opinions, engage in the protection of "art for art's sake" and rebelled against the "tendency". In the field of aesthetic criticism A. was below the PV. Annenkov and H. Solovyov. More spotted were his article "The subjugation of Art" (1857) and reviews of "Bitter Fate Pisemsky," War and Peace "by Leo Tolstoy," One is safety in numbers "Spielhagen. Died A. August 18, 1893.