Vasily Ivanovich Manenkov

Background

Vasily Ivanovich Manenkov was born in 1861 in Usterenka village, Simbirsk region, Russian Federation. He was of peasant origin.

Education

In 1879, Vasily Ivanovich Manenkov graduated from the Simbirsk Chuvash teacher's school.

Career

In 1880, Vasily Ivanovich Manenkov worked as a village teacher in Simbirsk Governorate. In 1888, he served in the office of the commodity department of the Gryaze-Tsaritsyn railway at the station Borisoglebsk (Tambov Governorate), where he met Maxim Gorky. In 1888-1889, Manenkov wrote for the column "Journal echoes" in the "Samarskaya gazeta", since March 1889 – "Reader's Notes", where he wrote reviews on the capital's magazines "Russkaya mysl","Severniy vestnik", 'Nablyudatel","Russkoe bogatstvo". In 1901, Manenkov moved to Moscow. In the autumn of 1901 published a series of essays "On the Moscow brothels" in the newspaper "Russkoe slovo" about the hard life and spiritual resistance of provincial intellectuals in the capital city.

After joining the Narodniks Manenkov kept an illegal library of their revolutionary underground. In 1902, as a result of exhausting journalistic work and long-term alcohol abuse, he fell ill with a nervous disorder and left Moscow in order to be treated in the Kazan province, where he died on July 23, 1904.

Membership

• The Narodniks

  1884 - 1901