IRON Joasaph Ignatievich

(1824 - 1863).
. Living with children among the Cossacks and then the ten-year service in the Office, . then chief of the fortifications on the outskirts of the Ural region, . then with the regiment in the villages of the Kyiv and Volyn provinces gave him the opportunity to know and love the Urals, . examine their life and customs, . acquainted with their views of, . legends, . songs,
. Once the service in Moscow, Zheleznov friends with "young" edited Moskvityanin "and under its influence replenished their meager education. In 1854, Mr.. He made his debut in "Moskvityanin" "Picture ahannogo fishing". Was followed by "Bashkirs", "Vasily Strunyashev" and others. Try it its strength and historical criticism (analysis of "History of the Pugachev rebellion" Pushkin, . which raised its Urals), . writing journalistic articles, . not all of the past through the censorship, . led, . protecting the Ural Cossacks, . hot controversy with Nebolsina,
. In 1858, Mr.. came collected works of Zheleznova "Urals people - sketches of life Ural Cossacks, was welcomed by critics. Collected Zheleznova homeland traditions Urals published them in 1861,. under the title "Tales and Songs of the Ural Cossacks", . materials on their stories published on the death of Zheleznova Chicken (in the Ural Military Gazette "for 1869 - 71 years.), . and a large part of the manuscripts were used by the authors of works on the history of the Ural troops, . among other things Vitevskim,
. Selected in 1862. "young party" in the assessors, Zheleznov returned to Uralsk. Facing ataman on the basis of demarcation of land between the Cossacks and Kirghiz in Zauralski "Bukhara" side, with Zheleznov with his comrades defended the interests of the Cossacks, betrayed him by reprimand. The authorities tried to establish against him about his alleged failings in the service chieftain Sevruga fishing in the spring of 1863. Outraged by the injustice Zheleznov began to show signs of mental illness and suicide. Confessional Ural erected author Vasily Strunyasheva "(the most popular among them work Zheleznova) in the Urals cemetery monument, called the area at the cemetery Zheleznovskoy and in 1888. distance to troop through his writings. In 1910,. came under the editorship N.A. Borodin Third Edition Ural'tsev ", augmented by previously unpublished works. In addition to its purely artistic value, works Zheleznova are now great interest in the historical sense, as a picture of life Urals in the first half of XIX century. And provide valuable ethnographic material and folkloristsky. P. L.