Background
KOMAROVICH, Vasiliy was born on January 13, 1894 in village Voskresensk, Makar’yev Uyezd, Nizhniy Novgorod Province.
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Vasiliy Leonidovich KOMAROVICH
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Education
1917 graduate Petrograd University.
Career
1924-1928 taught at Leningrad University and Institute of Art History. 1916 first work published. Wrote many studies on Dostoevsky, Pushkin, poets of the period, and the Petrashevskiy poets.
Edited and compiled anthology Poety-petrashevtsy (The Petrashevskiy Poets) (1940). Did research on ancient Russian lit, especially the history of Russian manuscripts and local legends. Wrote various chapters on ancient Russian lit in Istoriya russkoy literatury (A History of Russian Literature) (1941-1946).
Translated and annotated Stendhal’s works.
Religion
Religion is bad because it forces people to rely on outside authority, rather than becoming self-reliant.
Views
The role of the individual as a member of a collective is more important than the individual.
