Elagin Vladimir

(1831 - 1863)
He studied at the medical faculty of Moscow University, at the beginning of the Crimean campaign, entered the military service and sortie from Sebastopol, was seriously wounded in the chest. Settling in Yekaterinoslav, Yelagin well acquainted with the provincial society and wrote his first work "Pyro" in print is not released to. "Taxed case" ( "Contemporary", 1858, "9 and 10) gave him fame, but it antagonized influential individuals Province. Other works Elagina: "The provincial Carnival" (published in three parts only two, in the "Contemporary", 1860), "contract" (ib., 1862), "Important dead body" (in the "Compendium of Novorossiysk) and" Flor I. "(in Russian Word, 1859). The artistic value of works Elagina not great, it is only dagerrotipno true picture of the two classes of provincial society - Taxed world and the provincial aristocracy.