Vsevolod garshin biography books
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.
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Russia’s most underrated writer, Vsevolod Garshin (1855–88), fascinated his contemporaries. A cult figure whose public readings provoked ecstatic responses, the charismatic Garshin struck one young woman as “a perfect model for an icon of our Savior.
His large, dark, deep-set eyes looked at me . .
Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.. with such melancholy kindness, as though pleading with me, a mere teenager, to have pity on him and on the whole world.” The greatest painter of the period, Ilya Repin, pictured him at his writing desk staring at the viewer with deep, soulful eyes that overflow with compassion.
Born into a family of impoverished noblemen, Garshin grew up among people who could hardly have failed to foster his interest in suffering, cruelty, and compassion.
His paternal grandfather, Egor Akhipovich, was famously cruel to his serfs and often availed himself of his “right” to displace the groom on a bride’s wedding night. Appalled by these horrors, Garshin’s father, Mikhail Ego
