Ershov Petr Pavlovich

(1815 - 1869), a native of Siberia; education received at St. Petersburg University, was director of the Tobolsk Gymnasium. Print the poem in the "Library for Reading Senkovsky and" Contemporary "Pletnev. Fame gave Ershov Tale "Humpbacked Horse", written by another student's desk and was first printed in a passage in 3 m. "Library for Reading in 1834, with mentions Senkovsky, the first four verses of Pushkin tale sketched, read it in manuscript. "Now this kind of works can be me and leave," - said at the time of Pushkin. Great poet liked the ease of the verse, which - he said - Ershov, treats as their serfs ". Immediately after it came out in book form and when life Ershov withstood 7 editions, ranging from the 4 th edition, in 1856, she left with the restoration of the places in the first edition have been replaced by the points. "Humpbacked Horse" - a work of popular, almost word for word, according to the author, taken from the mouths of storytellers, from whom he heard it; Ershov only put him in a more harmonious appearance, and sometimes supplemented. Simple, . sonorous and powerful verse, . purely folk humor, . abundance of successful and artistic paintings (equestrian market, . district court in fish, . mayor) brought this tale widespread; it caused a few imitations (eg, . Humpbacked Horse with gold stubble),
. S. Leon wrote a ballet based on her story. Belinsky saw it as a fake, "written very pretty verses, but in which" there is a Russian word, but not the Russian spirit ". - See. A. Yaroslavtseva "Pyotr Pavlovich Yershov (St. Petersburg, 1872), H. Lerner, "Notes on Pushkin (St. Petersburg, 1913).