VONLYARLYARSKY Vasili Alexandrovich

born April 12, 1814 in a noble family in Smolensk. Up to 14 years was brought home, then I was in boarding school at St. Petersburg University, and, finally, identifying Leib Hussars, went to school guard of cadets, which became intimate with Lermontov. At issue, he left an officer in the Guards cavalry squadron Pioneers, but soon abandoned military service. He did not publish until 1851, when appeared in "Notes of the Fatherland" of his essays "The trip to Marseilles steamer" and "Hunting for lions in Miliani". In 1849, Mr.. Vonlyarlyarsky severely ill, went for treatment to the south of France and Algeria, but the disease has left him, and on 30 December 1852. He died in Moscow and was buried in the village of Paradise Smolensky County. He has written a large number of literary works: "Silhouette", . "Abdallah ban-Atabou", . "Bahia", . "Master", . "The night of September 28", . "Great lady ', . "Two Sisters", . "The memory of Zakhar Ivanovich", . "Neighbors, . "It could not happen", . "Tourist" and a number of dramatic works,
. Collected works of his biography and a portrait published Ks. The field of 7 T. in 1853 - 1854 he. St. Petersburg. Of all written Vonlyarlyarskim most successful use of "big lady". One can not but marvel extraordinary fertility Vonlyarlyarskogo: all of his published works written by him, according to the Field, within three years. Not denying Vonlyarlyarskomu in some talent, . sure, . funny and compare it with Gogol, . not just put above, . as does the Field: the desire to mitigate the negative aspects of life exhibiting positive is not too great merit, . especially when such a desire to deprive the product of reality,
. In making an assessment of Vonlyarlyarskogo, his biographer notes that Vonlyarlyarsky mastered the elegance of French novelists, but it should be added, he had learned and their superficiality.