Nikolay Nikolaevich Breshko-Breshkovsky was a Russian fiction writer, as well as a director and screenwriter. After the October Revolution, he emigrated to Poland, where he published political novels and essay books. Later he worked as a correspondent in newspapers.
Background
Nikolay Nikolaevich Breshko-Breshkovsky was born on February 20, 1874, in Saint Petersburg City, Russian Federation. His mother was Ekaterina Breshko-Breshkovskaya, known as the grandmother of the Russian Revolution. He was brought up in the family of his uncle, V. Verigo, due to the Breshko-Breshkovskaya revolutionary activities and her subsequent exile. His father, Nikolay Breshko-Breshkovsky, was a landowner.
Education
After graduating from the Rivne non-classical secondary school in 1893, Nikolay Nikolaevich moved to Saint Petersburg.
After graduating from the Rivne non-classical secondary school, Nikolay Nikolaevich moved to Saint Petersburg, where he worked for the Excise department. Two years later, he quitted the job and began his literary career.
His first stories were published in 1896. The main theme of Nikolay Nikolaevich early works was the life of the Zaporozhian Cossacks. Literary critics noted that the author "vividly describes the characters, and also subtly understands the beauty of nature".
From the beginning of the twentieth century, Nikolay Nikolaevich turned his attention to journalism. He began to write about sports and fashion for leading literary magazines such as Petersburg newspaper, the Russian Word, Voice of Moscow, and so on. He was also an art critic. Since 1906, he published his own magazine Lights. Passion for sports allowed Nikolay Nikolaevich to write a series of novels about wrestlers. They received negative critics' reviews, because "the characters have neither characters nor physiognomy, but only musculature and loud voice". Also in the 1910s, he started to write about the seamy side of high life, German and Austrian espionage, military operations in Serbia. At the same time, he began working in the cinema industry: he was invited to write scripts, later Nikolay Nikolaevich also began working as a director.
During World War I, he served as a war correspondent. After the October Revolution of 1917, Nikolay Nikolaevich emigrated to Poland. There he wrote mainly anti-Soviet novels. He was later expelled from Poland and moved to France, where journalism became his main occupation.
From the beginning of World War II, Nikolay Nikolaevich moved to Germany, where he joined the Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda.
Nothing is known about the party affiliation of Nikolay Nikolaevich. But according to his activities, it is noticeable that he opposed the Soviet Union. In his early novels, he condemned high life. After the October Revolution of 1917, he emigrated to Poland, where he wrote a series of anti-Soviet novels.
In 1927 Nikolay Nikolaevich was expelled from Poland since in his works he condemned the events taking place in the country. Having received French citizenship, he collaborated with other emigrants from the USSR. During the Second World War, he worked in the Nazi Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda, opposing the Allies.
Views
Even though so many Nikolay Nikolaevich novels were criticized for their vulgarity and primitiveness, he himself believed that his readers were not guided by the opinions of strict and serious criticism, reading only that which corresponded to their unpretentious feelings.
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
D. Mordovtsev: "He vividly describes the characters, and also subtly understands the beauty of nature." (about the Zaporozhian Cossacks novels of Breshko-Breshkovsky).
A. Kuprin: "To read with enthusiasm ... the vulgar novels of Breshka-Breshkovsky." (about A. Blok’s fascination with the wrestling novels of Breshko-Breshkovsky).
V. Korolenko: "There are no characters or physiognomies, but only musculature, loud voices and more or less ability to "take to souplesse avant" and "build head bridges." (about the Breshko-Breshkovsky’s wrestling novels).
A. Kuprin: "Coldly rhetorical, artificially inflated, labored pornography." (about Breshko-Breshkovsky’s novels on high life).
A. Kuprin: "A waterfall of banal bombastic expressions, template phrases, and catchwords, current, ready, tattered images." (about the style of Breshko-Breshkovsky).
L. Lyubimov: "He hastened to Berlin and there zealously served in the fascist propaganda bodies until he died during the bombing." (about the end of Breshko-Breshkovsky’s life).
Connections
Nothing is known about the family of Nikolai Breshko-Breshkovsky.