Garin (Nicholas G. Michael)

Garin - writer's pseudonym Nicholas Georgievich Michael (1852 - 1906). He studied at the Odessa Richelieu school and at the Institute of Railway Engineers. After serving nearly 4 years in Bulgaria and in the construction of the Batumi port, he decided to "sit down" and spent 3 years in a village in the province of Samara, but the domination is not on the usual lines did not go smoothly, and he gave himself up railway construction in Siberia. On literary career was made in 1892. who had a success story "Childhood Themes" ( "Russian Wealth") and the story "A few years in the village" ( "Russian Thought"). In "Russian Wealth" and then he published "The boys" (sequel to "Baby Topics"), "Students" (sequel to "schoolboys"), "Rural panoramic" and others. Stories Garin came out in book. Collected works was published in 8 volumes (1906 - 1910), issued separately as: "In Korea, Manchuria and Liaotung Peninsula" and "Korean Tales". As a specialist engineer, Garin ardently defended in the New Times, "Russian Life" and other publications of the construction of cheap railways. The most famous of the works Garin - Trilogy "Childhood Themes", "schoolboys" and "Students" - meant to be interesting, full of places of ably and seriously. "Childhood Themes - the best part of the trilogy. The author has a lively sense of nature, . a memory of the heart, . with which he plays the child's psychology, not by, . an adult, . overseeing child, . but with all the freshness and fullness of children's experiences, but he has no ability to separate from the typical random,
. Autobiographical element too owns, he clutters the story episodes, violating the integrity of artistic impression. Most noticeable in the absence of typical "students", although they have very vividly written scenes. - Wed. Elpat'evskii, "Close the shadows"; Kuprin, "Works", Volume VI. S. In.