ZASODIMSKY Pavel (Vologdin)

(1843 - 1912).
For some time listening to the St. Petersburg University lectures on the law faculty and then was a popular and tutor. Having studied the lives of rural and urban poor, Zasodimsky imbued with ardent love to the - as he puts it - "a sullen people living in proholod and progolod, to which life on this earth is not cheerful penal servitude". Little people and their suffering - such is the usual content of stories and novels Zasodimskogo. Since 1868. he placed in the "case" story "Sinner", . story: "wolf", . "And she was fun - she laughs", . "Dark forces", . "Old House" (the latter two works, . with the story of "fool", . entered into a separate collection under the title "Tales from the life of the poor", . Petersburg., . 1876),
. In Fatherland Notes 1874. attracted the attention of a novel Zasodimskogo of rural life: "Chronicle of the village Smurina" (separately, St. Petersburg., 1875 and 1906). Images of people's life here is extremely elevated, hero-blacksmith is a sort of village Lassalle. In 1878 - 1880 he. in "Word" placed stories Zasodimskogo "Who is in own way", "Terekhin dream", etc.. In 1880, Mr.. Zasodimsky becomes a member of the magazine "Russian Wealth," where, incidentally, published his novel "Steppe secrets". In the journal "Observer" put his story: "In cities and villages". Best of the stories Zasodimskogo for children included in the anthologies: "intimate stories" and "Byvalschina and fairy tales", reprinted several times. Collected Works Zasodimskogo in 2 volumes published in St. Petersburg in 1895. Was followed by: "Tales from a distant age" (Moscow, 1901) and "Out of memory" (Moscow, 1908). - See. P. Nikitin (Tkachev) "A guy in the salons of modern fiction" ( "Case", 1879, III, VI - XI); M. Protopopov, "writer-optimist" ( "Russian Wealth", 1895, IX); smt "folk-novelists" ( "Russian Thought", 1896, II).