GOLITSYN Dmitry Petrovich

Born in 1860, studied at the Lyceum in 1879. began to put poems in "Picturesque Review", . under the pseudonym of Dmitry Chertkov, . for which, . since 1884, . followed by a series of separately published novels and stories: "squalid and elegant", . "Tenor", . "Baba", . "Darkness", . "Sickness", . "About Love", . "Money", . "Princes", . "Dollar", . "Thou shalt not kill", etc.,
. The predominant theme of these works - paintings degeneration of aristocratic families. Talent is not the author of the ordinary, but some one-sidedness and the inability to separate the field of psychology from psychiatry deprive his novels are more profound literary significance. Since 1890 the activities of radical change Galitzine. Quickly moving the service, he in 1906. become a Friend of the chief superintendent, and then manager of the Office of the Empress Maria, from 1912. member of the Council of State. In political terms, Golitsyn, headed by Russian assembly, becomes a militant nationalist. Of the later works of literature it can be noted novels "Rizhaninovy" (1897), "Babylon" (1901), "From the hazy days" (1902), "In solitude" (1902), the dramatic tale in verse "Dream pleasure" and "Koschey "travel notes" We hsin sea.