Background
Viktor Petrovich Burenin was born on February 22, 1841, in Moscow City, Russian Federation.
1901
Viktor Burenin, Alexey Suvorin and N.Gey
critic dramatist novelist publicist translator
Viktor Petrovich Burenin was born on February 22, 1841, in Moscow City, Russian Federation.
In 1852-1859, Viktor Petrovich studied at the Moscow College of Architecture, where S.M. Lubetsky, the teacher of the Russian language, had a significant influence on the formation of his literary views. During the study, he supervised construction works in the estates of E.P. Naryshkina and N.D. Pushkina, and got close to the amnestied Decembrists.
Victor's career started in the 1860s. Since 1862 Viktor Petrovich regularly published satirical poems and scenes in the magazines Iskra and Spectator and quickly gained fame in literary circles. After moving to Saint Petersburg in 1863, he served as an assistant architect at Clinic Baronet Willie for about a year. In the 60s - beginning 70s often placed original and translated poems. In the middle of the 1860s, he started his review activity. His literary career continued till the 1910s.
During the process of delimiting political trends in the 1860s, he sought to take an independent position.
Viktor Petrovich was a "pure" nihilist. In assessing literary works, he proceeded, as a rule, not from any objective evaluation criteria, but from subjective experience, the reader's reaction.
Quotes from others about the person
Korney Chukovsky: "Objectively speaking, he was one of the most gifted authors of the literary right wing."
Fyodor Dostoyevsky even argued that Burenin: "understood him better than any other man" who wrote about him.
