KONDURUSHKIN Stepan Semenovich

Born in 1874 into a peasant family. In 1898, he graduated from Kazan Teacher's Institute, left, at the invitation of the Palestinian society in Palestine and Syria, where he spent 5 years a teacher and an assistant inspector of the South-Syrian inspection. Impressions of Nature Syria - Lebanon, Anti-Lebanon mountains, the desert - they gave him material for interesting and colorful, "Syrian stories" printed in "Russian Wealth", "World of God" and others. In recent years, has traveled extensively throughout Russia, studying the religious and socio-political mood of post-revolutionary life of the masses Russia. Separately issued his "stories" (St. Petersburg, 1908 - 1910). They do not include poetic stories about life on the New Earth (Collection "Knowledge", XXVIII). Travel sketches Kondurushkina mainly printed in "Speeches."