Corinth Apollo Apollonovich

Born in 1868 in a landed family. He studied at the gymnasium Simbirsk. Was feuilletonist "Samara Newspapers", "Volga Messenger and other publications of the Volga, then began to put original and translated poems, short stories and articles about Russian writers in the metropolitan newspapers and magazines. Youth poem Corinth were almost exclusively lyrical content and later became his favorite genre paintings of nature and folk tales (byvalschiny). Life in the village gave him the nature of ethnographic material, treated them in a number of ethnographic essays. A member of a committee to review popular books of the Ministry of Education. Separate editions of his original compositions: poems - "Songs of the heart" (2 nd edition, Moscow, 1896), "Black Rose" (St. Petersburg, 1896), "Shadows of life" (ib., 1897; 2 nd edition, 1910), "Hymn to Beauty" (ib., 1899), "In the rays of dreams" (ib., 1905), "Byvalschiny. Stories, pictures and thoughts "(3rd edition, ib., 1900)," Volga. Stories, pictures and thoughts "(Moscow, 1903)," In the early dawn. Poems for Children (2 nd Edition, . ib., . 1903), "In light of Dreams" (1906, 2 nd Edition, . 1912), . "Under the burden of the cross" (St. Petersburg, . 1909), . "Songs of bread" (Moscow, . 1909), . "Songs of paupers" (St.-Petersburg, . 1909), . "In the children's world" (Moscow, . 1909), . "For distant centuries" (ib., . 1909), . "In my native land" (Saint-Petersburg, . 1911), . "The gray-haired old man" (Moscow, . 1912), . "Later Lyrics" (St.-Petersburg, . 1912),
. Prose - "free as a bird" and other stories (3rd edition, Moscow, 1910), "People Rus. Year Round legends, beliefs, customs and proverbs of the Russian people "(Moscow, 1901)," Labor Year of the Russian peasant "(ib., 1904)," In the world of legends. New Essays national Russia (St. Petersburg, 1905), "Poetry KK. Slichevski "(ib., 1900)," D.N. Gardeners, and his poetry "(ib., 1900) and other. Corinth - brilliant versifier, . but the depth of poetic perception of it does not, . too developed the desire to effects, . especially in "byvalschinah" and "fairy tales" in an artificially-epic style, . painted in influenced by Alexei Tolstoy and entirely devoted to the idealization of antiquity,
. S. Vengerov.