Nikolai Krasheninnikov was Russian poet, memoirist and playwrighter. Author of poetry collections, memoir essays and plays, used the pseudonym "Innokentiy Krasheninnikov".
Background
Nikolai Alexandrovich Krasheninnikov was born on September 18, 1897 in village Grushino, Voronezh region, Russian Federation. His mother was from the nobility, the great-great-grandson of the traveler and the explorer of Kamchatka J.V. Krasheninnikov, grandson of the naturalist O.N. Krasheninnikov, who made a collection of stuffed animals. The father, A. Kambulin, - from the senior officer's children, was the caretaker of the Iletsk Penal Servitude prisoner, died early. Nikolai Krasheninnikov's childhood passed in the estate of Petrovsky belonged to his mother’s sister, who later in 1900 adopted him.
Education
Nikolai Alexandrovich graduated from the 1st Voronezh gymnasium in 1917.
Career
In the 1920s, Nikolai Alexandrovich Krasheninnikov became the Head of the Literary Subdivision of the Don Regional Department of the State Publishing House (Rostov-on-Don). From the 1930s he lived in Moscow.
After the Great Patriotic War - the Head of the Proofreading Department of the newspaper "Moskovskaya Pravda". Fragments of the poems "Embers", "In Log Cabins" were published in the collection "Here" (Rostov, 1921). He is the author of poetry collections "Wolf berries" (Moscow, 1921), Memoir essay about the family Krasheninnikovs "Pears flourished in Grushino" pand a fragment dedicated to hunting, in the book "From the History of Voronezh Hunting and Dog Breeding".
