Background
Sergey Evseevich Ganshin was born on July 5, 1818, in Gremyacheye village, Russian Federation. He came from the Tula peasants. His father was a carter and died in Moscow when his son was only 3 years old.
Sergey Evseevich Ganshin was born on July 5, 1818, in Gremyacheye village, Russian Federation. He came from the Tula peasants. His father was a carter and died in Moscow when his son was only 3 years old.
At the age of 7, Sergey Evseevich began to study literacy, but due to the long distance between the village and the school and lack of warm clothing in winter, he had to give up to study literacy. At eight years he was given to the village shepherds. He grazed the cattle up to 14 years old.
At the age of 15, Sergey Evseevich went on foot to Moscow, worked at various factories; over the next 15 years, wandered around the cities of Russia, and led a life of misery. In 1904 he worked as a forwarder in Rostov-on-Don. Then he began to write poems. From 1907 - in Moscow, a weaver at one of the factories. Sergey Evseevich was searched and arrested for distributing proclamations among the peasants.
He began his literary activity in 1908 when the magazine Yasny sokol began to appear in Moscow. From this time on magazines, newspapers, and almanacs of Moscow, Chisinau, Vologda, Suzdal, and other cities started publishing his poems willingly. Several poems were published in the newspaper Zvezda. For some time in 1911, he edited Moscow magazine Zhivoe slovo.
