Background
Nikolay Ivanovich Volkov was born in 1872.
Nikolay Ivanovich Volkov was born in 1872.
From the beginning of 1885, Nikolay Ivanovich worked in Moscow: a seller in a vegetable shop, and then in a wine shop. He began to write in 1887. In 1904 he met with the Moscow comradely circle of writers from the people, headed by P. A. Travin.
In 1905 Nikolay Ivanovich first published his works: poems and the story On the ship published in the newspaper Eternal Mail, the magazine Voice of Life, collection Ten. In 1906-1910, he published poems, articles, and short stories in the newspapers Pravda God, Sokha-nurse, Simple Word, Simple Life, in the journal Yasny Sokol, Rodnik, and Young Russia.
At the end of 1911, Volkov’s book of poems Winter was published. This is mainly the lyrics - the melancholy mood of the Russian soul with sadness, sadness, with complaints.
After the October Revolution - in the collection Chernozem and New Tales. After 1924 it was almost not published; he worked at the MSPO grocery store.