Alexander Serafimovich Gatsisky was a writer, statistician, and the researcher of the Nizhny Novgorod Territory.
Background
Alexander Gatsisky was born in Ryazan on May 30, 1838, and in 1847, November 15, he arrived with his parents in Nizhny Novgorod. He was the son of a physician S.P. Dakhnovich-Gatsky, a descendant of an ancient Polish family, and a Revel German.
Education
Alexander Serafimovich graduated from the Nizhny Novgorod Classical Gymnasium (1849-1855), the Faculty of Law of Kazan University (1855-1861), where he attended lectures by famous historians S.V. Yesheveky and A.P. Schapov.
Career
First literary experiments date back to 1859, when Alexander Serafimovich, having arrived in Petersburg, met V.S. Kurochkin and published the stories From Officer's Notes, Musical Memories, On Name Day in the Iskra magazine. Later, in Iskra, he published the story Barskie Slyozy, inspired by impressions of the peasant reform.
In 1861 Alexander Serafimovich settled in Nizhny Novgorod, where he started his publishing activity from the attempts to "revive" local press. Since 1862 he was the editor of Nizhegorodskie vedomosti, in 1863-1872 - Nizhegorodsky spravochny yarmarochny listok.
In the 60s Alexander Serafimovich tried to assert the authority of the local press, which was still not able to express the self-identity of the province, in particular, because of the centripetal influence of the capitals, which took the best creative forces from the province. Alexander Serafimovich considered it necessary to publish household, ethnographic material.
In 1872-1874 worked in Kamsko-Volzhskaya newspaper. He was also published in Irkutsk newspaper Siberia, sometimes in central newspapers such as SPbVed, Moskovskie vedomosti, Nedelya and others. His article The death of province or not? Opened letters to D.L. Mordovtsev. Letter I was of significant importance. In this article Alexander Serafimovich spoke out against "the inappropriate claim (Mordovtsev's) to centralize the country's spiritual life".
From 1887, the chairman of the Nizhny Novgorod scientific archaeological commission; member of a number of scientific societies. As secretary of the Nizhny Novgorod Statistics Committee (1865-1893, with breaks) led the publication of Nizhegorodsky sbornik.
Alexander Serafimovich was the author of a historical essay Nizhegorodsky teatr, a book Nizhegorodka. Putevoditel i ukazatel po N.Novgorodu i Nizhegorodskoy yarmarke, a book with biographies Lyudi Nizhegorod.Povolzhiya.