Mikhail Nilovich Albov was a Russian novelist and writer. He was first published at early age, and received mostly positive feedback from critics. He even was compared with Chekhov and Dostoevsky.
Background
Mikhail Nilovich Albov was born on November 8, 1851 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Federation. His father was from the Novgorod clergy, deacon of the Saint Petersburg Post Office church; his mother – from the nobility (on the female line) of the Yaroslavl province (died in 1853).
Education
The aunt, T.N. Bashmakova, taught Mikhail Nilovich to read and write. He was especially interested in foreign works such as Robinson Crusoe and David Copperfield. Nikolay Gogol's novel Dead Souls also made a deep impression on him.
Mikhail Nilovich Albov was sent to the 2nd Saint Petersburg Gymnasium. Passion for writing led to the expulsion of Mikhail Nilovich from the gymnasium after the 4th grade "for failure". Since 1867 he studied at the 5th Saint Petersburg Gymnasium. At the age of thirteen Albov's story The Memoirs of an Underground Lodger was published by the Peterburgsky Listok (Saint Petersburg News). After this success, he left school to focus on his literary efforts.
After graduating (1873) studied at the Law Faculty of Saint Petersburg University. Interrupting his studies, Mikhail Nilovich volunteered for the Russo-Turkish War: from July 1877 to March 1878 – Brother of Charity in the Danube Army.
In 1879 Mikhail Nilovichegraduated from the course with the title of valid student, did not practice law, devoting himself to literary work.
Career
In 1895-1901 Mikhail Nilovich lived mainly in Poltava, in the family of Dr. E.V. Svyatlovsky. In the newspaper of his brother V.V. Svyatlovsky, "Pridneprovsky Kray" (Dnieper Region, Yekaterinoslav - modern Dnieper) was a publishing editor (1897-1899). The first major works are the novel "On a New Road". In 1884, his first book, "The Srories", was published, which included the psychiatric sketch "The Day of Closure", which brought fame to Mikhail Nilovich and the unfinished story "Before the Wharf. Stories about people seeking the city".
In the last years of his life, Mikhail Nilovich occasionally placed small works in various, mainly weekly, publications: "Cleopatra" (1902), "Destiny" (1904), and "Poet" (1910). At the end of his life, he worked on the big story "Night Horror" (1912).
Membership
Free Society of Lovers of Literature, Science, and the Arts
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Russian Federation
1895
Personality
Quotes from others about the person
E. Garshin about the novel "Robe": "...everything is done with character, it is lively, truthful, honest and unconditionally devoid of claim."
V.M. Garshin, 1879: "...Dostoevsky did not have such clarity and accuracy of analysis."
I.E. Repin, 1888: "What is the depth of thought, what is the understanding of the human heart, what is observation..."
N.S. Leskov, 1894: "wonderful talent."
Connections
All his life Albov Mikhail Nilovich was lonely, rootless. The death of a young wife (nee E. D. Poltoratskaya) and a newborn child in the spring of 1890 seriously affected the mental state of the writer, a closed, vulnerable person, prone to painful reflection and melancholy. His face “seemed not only tired, but “faded away”... and in a motionless look felt desperate, always gnawing grief”.