Background
Ivan Egorovich Volnov was born on March 1, 1885, in Bogoroditskoye village of Oryol province (now Bogoroditskoye village, Oryol region, Russian Federation). He was born into a poor peasant family.
(The story of the days of my life by Volnov I.E. is an aut...)
The story of the days of my life by Volnov I.E. is an autobiographical novel by the writer. A significant part of the novel is the life of Oryol village. Curiously, Volnov's fellow countrymen, writers Andreev and Bunin, who are well acquainted with the Oryol village, gave diametrically opposite assessments of the novel. Andreev rated the novel very highly, and Bunin extremely negatively. Russian edition.
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Ivan Egorovich Volnov was born on March 1, 1885, in Bogoroditskoye village of Oryol province (now Bogoroditskoye village, Oryol region, Russian Federation). He was born into a poor peasant family.
Ivan Egorovich studied at a parochial school, as a gifted student was sent to a two-year school, and at the age of 14 was appointed an assistant teacher. In 1900-1904, he studied at the Kursk teachers' Seminary, and after graduation, he started teaching at school.
In 1903, Ivan Egorovich joined the socialist-revolutionaries' party, went around the villages under the guise of a beggar, conducted revolutionary propaganda among the peasants, and distributed illegal literature. In November 1905, he was arrested; in the future, he was repeatedly subjected to repression and sadistic beatings by prison guards.
In 1905-1907, Ivan Egorovich took an active part in the agrarian revolutionary movement in the Oryol region.In 1908, he organized a combat team in the Donbas. In June 1908, he was arrested while trying to shoot the Mtsensk police officer. Ivan Egorovich spent more than a year in the Oryol prison, and wore hand shackles for four months. About the experience, about the situation of prisoners in tsarist prisons, he published a number of essays in the newspaper Future published by V. L. Burtsev in Paris, as well as stories How it was, At the turn, In the Autumn. In 1909, Ivan Egorovich was exiled to the Yenisei province (the village of Kondratievo in Kansk County), in July 1910 he fled, and until may 1917 he lived abroad (mainly in Italy).
In Zurich (1910), Ivan Egorovich participated in a manuscript magazine of Russian expatriate students. His literary debut (although he started writing at the age of ten) is a prose poem Three dreams. On Capri (January 1911) met with M. Gorky, who convinced Ivan Egorovich to base his work on personal life experience, took on the role of mentor, first editor, and critic. Under his leadership, he wrote his most significant work, The Story of the days of my life. In 1915-1917, Ivan Egorovich worked on a series of essays Fire and water, in which he wanted to portray the fate of a peasant family for several generations (wrote 9 essays; before 1917 published Methuselah, Circles of life).
Returning to Russia after the February revolution of 1917, Ivan Egorovich was appointed a Commissioner of the Provisional government in Maloarkhangelsky district. He was elected a member of the Constituent Assembly. In 1918, Ivan Egorovich went to Siberia to buy bread for the Soviet Republic. In October 1919, he met with V. I. Lenin in the Kremlin.
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