Background

Nikolay Ilyich Voronov was born on March 5, 1832, in Valki, Kharkiv province (now Valki, Kharkiv Region, Ukraine). He was born in the family of a nobleman, a teacher of a district school. His children participated in the revolutionary movement and joined the Bolsheviks. The personal archive of the Voronov family is kept in the house of his descendants in Tsebelda, where the people's Museum is organized.

Education

Nikolay Ilyich studied with Peter I Weinberg at Kharkiv University.

Career

In 1854-1861, Nikolay Ilyich taught Russian literature at the Kursk district school, Stavropol gymnasium, and Kuban military gymnasium. He began publishing his works in 1856 in the provincial press (Samara provincial Vedomosti, Odessa bulletin). The first major publication is the Road notes on different ways of southern Russia (1858), then came the Black sea letters and News from the Kuban. The most significant of his works appeared later: Swimming off the Eastern shores of the Black sea (1861) and the Riona Valley (1864). Later, the travel essays are joined by the article One of the urgent needs for a multilateral study of Russia (1864), in which Nikolay Ilyich proposes to create a Russian travel book, written artistically and fascinatingly, to introduce the General public to the Motherland. He also wrote such fiction works as Stories from the life of a County town (1861), Material for reflection. From the stories of my friend (1864), London boarding house (1864).

In 1862, while traveling abroad, Nikolay Ilyich met in London with M.A. Bakunin, A.I. Herzen and N.P. Ogarev and accepted an assignment related to the delivery of publications of the Free Russian printing house to the Caucasus. He was arrested in Tiflis and in October 1862 he was imprisoned in the Alexeyevsky Ravelin of the Peter and Paul Fortress in the case of the London propagandists. After 5 months in prison, Nikolay Ilyich was released.

From 1866 Nikolay Ilyich taught Russian literature at the Tiflis women's school. In 1868-1877 he served in the Caucasian city administration, while in 1875-1877 he was the ruler of the Affairs of the Caucasian branch of the Russian geographical society and the editorial office of its News and Notes. In 1880 Nikolay Ilyich retired due to illness and moved in 1882 in Tsebelda.

Achievements

• Nikolay Ilyich made many significant publications in various media, and also supported revolutionary movements.

Works

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  • Riona Valley

    (Travel memoirs of the famous Caucasian ethnographer N.I. ...)

    1864
  • Stavropol

    (In his article, the writer, Caucasian ethnographer N.I. V...)

  • From a trip to Dagestan

    (Detailed memoirs of the Caucasian ethnographer N.I. Voron...)

  • The fall of the poetic form in modern Russian literature

    (Literary and critical work by N.I. Voronov, devoted to th...)

  • Swimming off the Eastern shores of the Black sea

    (Russian publicist N.I. Voronov had a lot of travel in the...)

    1861

References

• Russian writers. 1800-1917. Biographical Dictionary. Volume 1
  1989