Valerian Fedorovich Pereverzev

Background

Valerian Fedorovich Pereverzev was born on October 5, 1882 in in Bobrov (now Voronezh Oblast), Russian Federation.

Education

Valerian Fedorovich studied at the gymnasium in Bobrov, where Pereverzev's father worked as a scribe, Borisoglebskaya gymnasium (1898-1901), graduated from Ostrogozhskaya gymnasium (1902).

Valerian studied physics and mathematics at the University of Kharkov from 1901 to 1905 but was expelled and exiled to Narym for participating in revolutionary activities.

Career

In 1911 Valerian Fedorovich returned to Moscow to study and lecture. After the October Revolution in 1917, Pereverzev worked as a teacher and scholar. He was a co-editor of the Literary Encyclopedia from 1929 to 1930. In 1921 he became a professor at Moscow State University. His work examined the works of Nikolai Gogol, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and Ivan Goncharov. Pereverzev maintained that an author's style is determined by class milieu.

He died in Moscow, Russian Federation.

Works

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  • Tvorchestvo Gogolia

    (Russian Edition)

    2016