Background
Isaac Grigoryevich Goldberg was born on October 27, 1884, in Irkutsk, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of a blacksmith, who had been exiled to Siberia accused of assault and battery of a Belarusian landlord.
Isaac Grigoryevich Goldberg was born on October 27, 1884, in Irkutsk, Russian Federation. He was born in the family of a blacksmith, who had been exiled to Siberia accused of assault and battery of a Belarusian landlord.
Isaac Grigoryevich graduated from the Irkutsk Town School in 1902 and in 1903 was arrested for belonging to the student group "Brotherhood", which was releasing an illegal journal.
Isaac Grigoryevich the actual and since 1916 official editor of the newspaper Siberia (Irkutsk). Since 1903 he was published in Siberia and other newspapers, journals, and illegal publications. He published several stories during those years.
The story Confession (1906) had the topic of the split personality on the basis of sex; The Dark (1916) showed a tendentious depiction of a Siberian village, with its darkness and superstition; in Verkhoturov Brothers appeared the fatal triumph of animal instincts in man.
Since 1910, Isaac Grigoryevich was publishing Evenki stories in newspapers, which were then combined in the book Tunguska Stories (1914). In the 20s was releasing stories about the Civil War in Siberia in the Siberian Lights and Zvezda journals, combining them into the cycle The Path Not Marked on the Map (1927). Isaac’s works are action-packed, include deliberate antipsychologism and protocol style, which, however, conceal a strong emotional intensity.
In 1904 Isaac Grigoryevich joined the Socialist Revolutionary Party, and in 1905 took part in the revolutionary events in Irkutsk; he was arrested several times. In 1907-1912 Isaac Grigoryevich was in an exile first in the Bratsk Ostrog, then on the Nijnaya Tunguska. The October Revolution was perceived by him as a people’s revolution In the story A Man with a Gun. Isaac Grigoryevich was illegally repressed, rehabilitated posthumously.
Isaac Grigoryevich was seen as a sensitive writer who described taiga corners of Siberia, not only fixing ethnographic features of everyday life but also analyzing the "Siberian soul".
