Nekrasov, Nikolai Alekseevich
Personal life
S. L. Levitsky. Photo portrait of N. A. Nekrasov
The personal life of Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov was not always successful. In 1842, at a poetry evening, he met Avdotya Panaeva (ur. Bryanskaya) - the wife of the writer Ivan Panaev.
Avdotya Panaeva, an attractive brunette, was considered one of the most beautiful women in St. Petersburg at that time. In addition, she was smart and was the owner of a literary salon, which met in the house of her husband Ivan Panaev.
Her own literary talent attracted the young but already popular Chernyshevsky, Dobrolyubov, Turgenev, Belinsky to the circle in the Panayevs’ house. Her husband, the writer Panaev, was characterized as a rake and a reveler.
Kraevsky House, which housed the editorial office of the journal “Domestic Notes”,
and also Nekrasov’s apartment was located
Despite this, his wife was distinguished by her decency, and Nekrasov had to make considerable efforts to attract the attention of this wonderful woman. Fyodor Dostoevsky was also in love with Avdotya, but he failed to achieve reciprocity.
At first, Panaeva also rejected twenty-six-year-old Nekrasov, who was also in love with her, which is why he almost committed suicide.
Avdotya Yakovlevna Panaeva
During one of the trips of the Panaevs and Nekrasov to the Kazan province, Avdotya and Nikolai Alekseevich nevertheless confessed their feelings to each other. Upon their return, they began to live in a civil marriage in the Panaevs’ apartment, together with Avdotya’s legal husband, Ivan Panaev.
This union lasted almost 16 years, until Panaev’s death. All this caused public condemnation - they said about Nekrasov that he lives in someone else’s house, loves someone else’s wife and at the same time makes scenes of jealousy for his legal husband.
Nekrasov and Panaev.
Caricature by N. A. Stepanov. "Illustrated Almanac"
prohibited by censorship. 1848
During this period, even many friends turned away from him. But, despite this, Nekrasov and Panaeva were happy. She even managed to get pregnant from him, and Nekrasov created one of his best poetic cycles - the so-called (they wrote and edited much of this cycle together).
The co-authorship of Nekrasov and Stanitsky (pseudonym of Avdotya Yakovlevna) belongs to several novels that have had great success. Despite such an unconventional lifestyle, this trio remained like-minded people and comrades-in-arms in the revival and establishment of the Sovremennik magazine.
In 1849, Avdotya Yakovlevna gave birth to a boy from Nekrasov, but he did not live long. At this time, Nikolai Alekseevich also fell ill. It is believed that it was with the death of the child that strong attacks of anger and mood swings were associated, which later led to a break in their relationship with Avdotya.
In 1862, Ivan Panaev died, and soon Avdotya Panaeva left Nekrasov. However, Nekrasov remembered her until the end of his life and, when drawing up his will, he mentioned her in it to Panaeva, this spectacular brunette, Nekrasov dedicated many of his fiery poems.
In May 1864, Nekrasov went on a trip abroad, which lasted about three months. He lived mainly in Paris with his companions - his sister Anna Alekseevna and the Frenchwoman Selina Lefresne, whom he met back in St. Petersburg in 1863.
ON THE. Nekrasov during the period of "Last Songs"
(painting by Ivan Kramskoy, 1877-1878)
Selina was an ordinary actress of the French troupe performing at the Mikhailovsky Theater. She was distinguished by her lively disposition and easy character. Selina spent the summer of 1866 in Karabikha. And in the spring of 1867, she went abroad, as before, together with Nekrasov and his sister Anna. However, this time she never returned to Russia.
However, this did not interrupt their relationship - in 1869 they met in Paris and spent the whole of August by the sea in Dieppe. Nekrasov was very pleased with this trip, also improving his health. During the rest, he felt happy, the reason for which was Selina, who was to his liking.
Selina Lefren
Although her attitude towards him was even and even a little dry. Having returned, Nekrasov did not forget Selina for a long time and helped her. And in his dying will he assigned her ten and a half thousand rubles.
Later, Nekrasov met a village girl, Fyokla Anisimovna Viktorova, simple and uneducated. She was 23 years old, he was already 48. The writer took her to theaters, concerts and exhibitions to fill the gaps in her upbringing. Nikolai Alekseevich came up with her name - Zina.
So Fyokla Anisimovna began to be called Zinaida Nikolaevna. She learned Nekrasov's poems by heart and admired him. Soon they got married. However, Nekrasov still yearned for his former love - Avdotya Panaeva - and at the same time loved both Zinaida and the Frenchwoman Selina Lefren, with whom he had an affair abroad.
He dedicated one of his most famous poetic works, “Three Elegies,” only to Panaeva.
It should also be mentioned about Nekrasov’s passion for playing cards, which can be called the hereditary passion of the Nekrasov family, starting with Nikolai Nekrasov’s great-grandfather, Yakov Ivanovich, an “immensely rich” Ryazan landowner, who rather quickly lost his wealth.
However, he again became rich quite quickly - at one time Yakov was a governor in Siberia. As a result of his passion for the game, his son Alexei inherited only the Ryazan estate. Having married, he received the village of Greshnevo as a dowry. But his son, Sergei Alekseevich, having mortgaged Yaroslavl Greshnevo for a period of time, lost him too.
Alexey Sergeevich, when telling his son Nikolai, the future poet, his glorious pedigree, summarized:
“Our ancestors were rich. Your great-great-grandfather lost seven thousand souls, your great-grandfather - two, your grandfather (my father) - one, I - nothing, because there was nothing to lose, but I also like to play cards.”
And only Nikolai Alekseevich was the first to change his fate. He also loved to play cards, but became the first to not lose. At a time when his ancestors were losing, he alone won back and won back a lot.
The count was in the hundreds of thousands. Thus, Adjutant General Alexander Vladimirovich Adlerberg, a famous statesman, minister of the Imperial Court and personal friend of Emperor Alexander II, lost a very large sum to him.
And Finance Minister Alexander Ageevich Abaza lost more than a million francs to Nekrasov. Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov managed to return Greshnevo, where he spent his childhood and which was taken away for his grandfather’s debt.
Another hobby of Nekrasov, also passed on to him from his father, was hunting. The hound hunt, which was served by two dozen dogs, greyhounds, hounds, hounds and stirrups, was the pride of Alexei Sergeevich.
The poet's father forgave his son long ago and, not without glee, followed his creative and financial successes. And the son, until his father’s death (in 1862), came to see him in Greshnevo every year. Nekrasov dedicated funny poems to dog hunting and even the poem of the same name “Dog Hunt”, glorifying the prowess, scope, beauty of Russia and the Russian soul.
In adulthood, Nekrasov even became addicted to bear hunting (“It’s fun to beat you, honorable bears...”).
Avdotya Panaeva recalled that when Nekrasov was going to hunt the bear, there were large gatherings - expensive wines, snacks and just provisions were brought. They even took a cook with them. In March 1865, Nekrasov managed to catch three bears in one day. He valued the male bear-hunters and dedicated poems to them - Savushka (“who sank on the forty-first bear”) from “In the Village,” Savely from “Who Lives Well in Rus'.”
The poet also loved to hunt game. His passion for walking through the swamp with a gun was limitless. Sometimes he went hunting at sunrise and returned only at midnight. He also went hunting with the “first hunter of Russia” Ivan Turgenev, with whom they had been friends for a long time and corresponded.
Nekrasov, in his last message to Turgenev abroad, even asked him to buy him a Lancaster gun in London or Paris for 500 rubles. However, their correspondence was destined to be interrupted in 1861. Turgenev did not answer the letter and did not buy a gun, and their long-term friendship was put to an end.
And the reason for this was not ideological or literary differences. Nekrasov's common-law wife, Avdotya Panaeva, got involved in a lawsuit over the inheritance of the ex-wife of the poet Nikolai Ogarev. The court awarded Panaeva a claim for 50 thousand rubles. Nekrasov paid this amount, preserving the honor of Avdotya Yakovlevna, but thereby his own reputation was shaken.
Turgenev found out from Ogarev himself in London all the intricacies of the dark matter, after which he broke all relations with Nekrasov. Nekrasov the publisher also broke up with some other old friends - L. N. Tolstoy, A. N. Ostrovsky. At this time, he switched to the new democratic wave emanating from the camp of Chernyshevsky - Dobrolyubov.
Zinaida Nikolaevna Nekrasova (1847-1914)
- wife of the Russian poet Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov
Fyokla Anisimovna, who became his late muse in 1870, and was named Zinaida Nikolaevna by Nekrasov in a noble manner, also became addicted to her husband’s hobby, hunting. She even saddled the horse herself and went hunting with him in a tailcoat and tight trousers, with a Zimmerman on her head. All this delighted Nekrasov.
But one day, while hunting in the Chudovsky swamp, Zinaida Nikolaevna accidentally shot Nekrasov’s beloved dog, a black pointer named Kado. After this, Nekrasov, who devoted 43 years of his life to hunting, hung up his gun forever
N. Nekrasov worked in the 40-70s of the 19th century, which became difficult for the history of Russia. It was a time of active social upsurge, caused by a long period of reaction and disappointment after the adoption of the long-awaited Manifesto abolishing serfdom. The socio-political situation in society determined the main themes of the works of N. A. Nekrasov, a democratically minded fighter for the freedom of the people.
This phrase of the poet himself fully reflects the main thrust of his poems and poems. The difficult lot of the Russian people and, in particular, peasant women (“Troika”, “On the Road”), lawlessness and tyranny reigning in landowner Russia (“Reflections at the Front Entrance”), the fate of the intelligentsia, which has embarked on a difficult path of struggle (“ In memory of Dobrolyubov"), the feat of the Decembrists and their wives ("Grandfather", "Russian Women"), the purpose of the poet and poetry ("Muse", "Poet and Citizen") - these are the main topics that cover the works of Nekrasov. He also has wonderful lines about love (“You and I are stupid people...”, “Confession”), about the beauty and greatness of Russian nature (“Spring”, “Mountains”). Several poems, including “General Toptygin” and “Grandfather Mazai and the Hares,” were written specifically for children. The pinnacle of creativity, undoubtedly, was the poem “Who Lives Well in Rus',” which represents a vast panorama of the life of ordinary people.
Perhaps Nekrasov’s works would not be so truthful and expressive if they were not based on the author’s own observations and experiences. He first witnessed cruelty towards another person as a child. His despotic father more than once attacked with his fists not only the serfs, but also his wife, which even then caused a protest in the boy’s soul against the oppression of women. Later he would express his childhood impressions and boundless love for Elena Andreevna, doomed to endless suffering, in the poems “Mother”, “Knight for an Hour”, “Bayushki-Bai”, etc.
Little Nikolai saw human suffering on the banks of the great Russian river, where he once saw barge haulers wandering (“On the Volga”). And on the wide road that ran next to Greshnev, people were constantly moving along it in search of work, and sometimes convicts were escorted out. This is how the self-awareness and orientation of almost every work of Nekrasov gradually formed.
There was a bright side to the poet's childhood. Many magnificent paintings recreated in poetic lines were also the result of life and observations on his father’s estate.
Nikolai Alekseevich suffered a lot of grief when starting an independent life in St. Petersburg. Deprived of support from home, he experienced poverty and hunger to the fullest. But life’s adversities only strengthened the purposeful young man and helped him achieve recognition.
The debut of the aspiring poet was the poem “On the Road,” which brought him enthusiastic praise from V. Belinsky. Then for about ten years Nikolai Alekseevich was published on the pages of magazines, including Sovremennik, which he published. And only in 1856 the collection “Poems of N. A. Nekrasov” was published. It aroused universal recognition among the progressive-minded part of society and brought real fame to the author. “The Poet and the Citizen” (opened the book), “Schoolboy”, “Uncompressed Lane”, “To the Temporary Worker”, “Lullaby”, the poem “Sasha” - this is only a small part of the picture drawn by the poet about the true situation of the Russian peasantry.
If we talk about the work of the 60-70s, then here too every work of Nekrasov - “The Railway”, “Vlas”, “Peasant Children”, “Orina, the Soldier’s Mother”, “Elegy”, poems about the Decembrists, “Frost” Red Nose”, “Peddlers”, etc. - not only talks about the difficult fate of the people, their hopes and disappointments, but also shows their power, beauty, and hidden strength. A fresh stream is felt in children's and landscape lyrics (for example, “Green Noise”).
An epic poem is how the genre of this work by Nekrasov, written already in the post-reform period, is defined. Thanks to space, meetings of heroes with representatives of different classes, and the introduction of folklore elements, a whole era in the life of the Russian people passes before the reader. The characters shown here are strong and strong-willed, worthy of respect. But, trying to answer the question posed in the title, the author gradually leads the reader to the image of a young fighter for universal interests, capable of inspiring and uplifting the masses.
This is how we can generally characterize the work of N. A. Nekrasov, the creator of a large number of works included in the list of the best classical poems and poems.
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov; Russian Empire, St. Petersburg; 11/28/1821 – 12/27/1877
The poems of N.A. Nekrasov are quite popular nowadays, especially since many of them are taught according to the school curriculum. In part, it is schoolchildren who are the main “fans” of N. A. Nekrasov’s work. But the poet’s poems are quite in demand not only among schoolchildren, which allowed N. A. Nekrasov’s poetry to take high places in various ratings of our site, and the poet himself to get into the rating.
Nikolai Nekrasov was born in the city of Nemirov, Vinnitsa district, into a noble family. His mother married Nekrasov's father without his father's consent. At the age of three, the family moved to the village of Greshnevo where the boy witnessed numerous orgies and massacres of peasants and sometimes his father’s mother. In 1832, Nikolai entered the Yaroslavl gymnasium, where he graduated from 5 classes. Here he wrote his first poems.
At the age of 17, Nikolai Nekrasov went to St. Petersburg to join a noble regiment. But contrary to his father’s wishes, he decided to enter the Faculty of Philology at St. Petersburg University. For this, the father completely refused his son financial support, and considering that Nekrasov did not enter the university, this hit his well-being hard. He began attending university as a free student and earning a living from temporary jobs. This was often not enough even for lunch, and Nikolai lived in a variety of rented rooms.
This life of N. A. Nekrasov continued for several years until his works began to be published in some small newspapers. This even made it possible to save money for the release of the first collection of poems by N. A. Nekrasov - “Dreams and Sounds.” He did not receive positive reviews and, like the poet, almost completely bought up and destroyed his collection.
In 1840, Nekrasov was accepted into the bibliographic department of the journal Otechestvennye zapiski; in addition, he began to engage in publishing activities. They appeared for the first time in his collections. This line of activity began to progress so well that after 6 years, together with Panaev, he bought the Sovremennik magazine, to the founding 
which he had a hand in. Thanks to their acquaintance with Belinsky, the new owners of the magazine managed to lure famous writers at that time. In addition, Nekrasov himself devotes a lot of time to searching for new talents, and soon many others become so too.
During his publishing activities, Nikolai Nekrasov does not forget about his own works. They are also published in the Sovremennik magazine, and poems by N. A. Nekrasov are published in separate collections. But after the French Revolution, censorship became noticeably more active and it became increasingly difficult to publish a magazine. This continues right up until 1866, when Sovremennik was banned forever. Two years after this, Nekrasov rents Otechestvennye zapiski, which manages to become the leading organ of democratic thought.
Around the same time, N.A. Nekrasov began working on his main work, “Who Lives Well in Rus'.” Work on it continues until the poet’s death, and became the author’s final reflection on the fate of the peasantry, ruined by the reform. N. A. Nekrasov’s work was cut short by intestinal cancer, which caused his death in 1875.
Among N. A. Nekrasov’s works, it is worth highlighting the epic poem “Who Lives Well in Rus',” which is now quite popular to read. This allowed the work to take a high place among, and given the fairly stable interest in the work, we will see it more than once in the ratings of our site.
It is quite difficult to list all of N A Nekrasov’s works. Therefore, we will indicate only plays and poems by N. A. Nekrasov, while the author’s poems are collected in a large number of the writer’s collections.
Poems:
Plays:
06/22/1907, Moscow - 02/15/1987, ibid.
Russian writer
There are writers whose personal fame cannot be compared with the fame of their own books. And the main reason for this is the very restrained attitude of these modest people towards the noise and bustle that accompanies any success; inability and unwillingness to engage in self-promotion. Why is this if in libraries their favorite creations - books - are already read to the gills?..
Obviously, Andrei Sergeevich Nekrasov was just such a person. Everyone knows about the adventures of the brave captain Vrungel and his assistants Lom and Fuchs - they either read the book or saw the cartoon. But most readers and viewers will not suddenly remember who told about these adventures. And even if he remembers, who is this mysterious “A. Nekrasov”, did he write anything else?.. A mystery shrouded in darkness. What can you do, Andrei Sergeevich did not like to talk much about himself. About others - yes, he spoke with pleasure, praised more and more, but about himself...
Well, in vain. It's about life "Captain Vrungel's dad" one could write a real adventure novel. 
After graduating from school, he became a simple laborer. Then for a short time he worked as a fitter and technician at the Moscow tram station. But could he sit in one place if all he did was look for adventures on his own?
In 1926, nineteen-year-old Nekrasov went to distant Murmansk, where he joined the trawl fleet as a sailor. In the North and Far East, he sailed on a variety of ships, both as an ordinary sailor and as a fireman. Who was he not!.. “I caught cod in the Barents Sea, panned for gold on the Amur, drilled for oil on Sakhalin, stood difficult watches at the red-hot furnaces of a ship’s firehouse, killed walruses in the Bering Strait, caught whales in the Pacific Ocean...”
Someone will say incredulously: he’s lying, like Captain Vrungel! However, all this is true - in order to write a book about Captain Vrungel’s trip around the world, you first had to travel around the world yourself. 
Except he never learned to play dominoes. Other sailors, as soon as they had a free minute, immediately began to “slaughter the goat,” and Nekrasov... “After standing watch, I read a lot because I had nothing better to do.”(his favorite book since childhood was “The Travels of Marco Polo”), “And the more I read, the more I wanted to write something myself. I started a thick notebook and began to write down all the interesting cases that I witnessed or participated in.”.
Essays and stories from that notebook (as well as poems, which he signed with the pseudonym “Tops”), starting in 1928, began to appear from time to time in magazines, including children’s magazines - in “Murzilka”, in “Pioneer”... In 1935 it was published a whole collection of stories “Sea Boots” - about sailors and fishermen of the Far East. A good collection - still in print. But, as Andrei Sergeevich himself admitted, he finally changed the chart’s desk to a writer’s desk only after his other book was published, the same one... 
And this is how it happened. Somewhere in the early 1930s, Andrei Nekrasov worked in the Far Eastern whaling trust, the director of which was Andrei Vasilyevich Vronsky, who passionately wanted to circumnavigate the world. For many reasons, these dreams remained dreams. But Vronsky was simply a wonderful storyteller and composed wonderful tales about his unrealized trip around the world. “He spoke slowly, with his voice and gestures emphasizing the imaginary significance of what was said. His speech, decorated with many sharply noted details, he peppered his speech appropriately and inappropriately with nautical terms, often repeated: “Yes, sir,” “That’s it,” and addressed the listeners only as “young man”... He was like would turn into a good-natured old captain, in his stories about past campaigns, unwittingly overstepping the boundaries of truth ... "
One day Nekrasov retold several of Vronsky’s tales to his good friend Boris Zhitkov, with whom he was then working on a joint book, and he suggested to him: “...would you write a short story about a captain who talks about his campaigns and cannot resist lying”.
Nekrasov became thoughtful. A simple logical chain arose: Vronsky - Baron Munchausen - Baron Wrangel - Captain Vrungel. This is how the well-known sea captain named Khristofor Bonifatievich was born. By the way, his companions, Lom and Fuchs, also had their own prototypes.
When working on the manuscript of the future book, Vronsky’s tales, funny incidents from Nekrasov’s own diaries, and various fables were used. “with which sailors entertain friends during their free time off duty”, and funny stories from childhood (for example, about the pleasure steamer “Daryal”, in which two letters fell off the stern board, and it turned into “Daria” - in the same way, Captain Vrungel’s yacht from “Victory” became “Trouble”).
And finally, in 1937, the story was published in Pioneer in the form of pictures with captions or, as they would say now, in the form of a comic book. 
True, for the sake of the first publication, the text had to be considerably shortened, but subsequently Nekrasov did not regret it at all, since collaboration with the wonderful artist Konstantin Rotov, whom he always remembered with gratitude, gave him a lot. For example, in the episode when the resourceful Khristofor Bonifatievich, in complete calm, decided to use bottles of soda (to speed up the speed), giving the yacht reactivity, such a detail as seagulls covered with corks was suggested to the author by a cheerful and observant artist.
Two years later, the book was published as a separate edition. The first responses appeared. Lev Kassil published an enthusiastic review of “Vrungel” - many thanks to him! Not very literate, but sincere and touching letters were endlessly sent to the editors of the Pioneer magazine by ordinary readers. However, there were also such boring adults who predicted the story's imminent oblivion and called it harmful. What kind of heroes are these, what example do they set for our children! Khristofor Bonifatievich himself is a liar, of which there are few, and besides, he does not let the pipe out of his mouth. Lom is partial to alcohol - remember the story of how the yacht “Trouble” lost its course and almost returned back because the senior mate’s nose was too sensitive to rum? There is nothing to say about Fuchs - a card sharper! Well, the team has come together. 
Fortunately, time has put everything in its place.
Now, with his fame, Captain Vrungel competes with the famous Baron Munchausen, and Andrei Nekrasov’s small book (which, alas, ends so quickly!) is republished several times a year. It is also read in other countries: the Czechs know Vrungel as Captain Zhvanilkin, the Poles know Captain Zalganov, the Germans know Captain Flunkerich.
...In addition to his main book, Nekrasov composed many more stories, essays, articles, notes (mostly popular science) - on technology, oceanography, aviation, electricity, and the history of shipping. Until his last days, he traveled and was a member of the editorial boards of the Pioneer magazine and the literary and artistic almanac Ocean.
His books were published frequently (as a rule, these were thin illustrated books from the Malysh publishing house), but the titles of most of them will tell little to even the most experienced bookworm. For some reason, with some exceptions, they did not stay afloat and sank in the bottomless literary sea. And only the small yacht “Trouble”, under the leadership of the cheerful captain Vrungel, continues to sail confidently.
Seven feet under the keel, Khristofor Bonifatievich!
HOW GOSHKA AND I BUILT BRIDGES / Artist. V. Ryabchikov. - M.: Malysh, 1973. - 26 p.: ill.
CAPTAIN VRUNGEL: [Fav. works] / Artist. A. Danilin. - M.: “Exi+”, 1993. - 382 pp.: ill. - (Children's adventure book).
Contents: The Adventures of Captain Vrungel: A Tale; Sea stories.
OPERATION "FOG": Story / Art. P. Pavlinov. - M.: Malysh, 1972. - p.: ill.
BY SEA-OCEAN / Fig. A. Beslik. - M.: Malysh, 1988. - 16 p.: ill.
This book is about the history of shipbuilding.
When was the first ship built? When did people realize that you can travel by water? It probably all started with an ordinary log, on which some ancient man crossed a wide river. Then people knitted a raft from logs, then they came up with a rowing boat, and then a sailing boat...
And they set off to wander the sea-ocean...
STORIES AND STORIES. - M.: Det. lit., 1967. - 479 pp.: ill.
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL: Fav. works / Ill. K. Rotova, L. Falina, V. Bogatkina. - Petrozavodsk: Karelia, 1992. - 351 p.: ill.
Contents: The Adventures of Captain Vrungel: A Tale; Sea Boots: Stories; Tales of the old boatswain; From the series “We were on Dikson”.
"We were on Dixon"
“There is a big river Yenisei in Siberia. It begins in the very center of Asia, where the high Sayan mountains support the sky with white caps...
I love the Yenisei very much, I go there often and, when I return, I remember for a long time the brown rocks of the steep banks and the white spills of the morning fogs, the quiet reaches and the mad crowd of rapids...
I have walked the Yenisei from end to end more than once. But, perhaps, what I remember best is the flight from Krasnoyarsk to Dikson Island.”.
The collection “We were on Dikson” includes six short stories: “The Captain’s Habit”, “Pied”, “Seal”, “Where the Night Lives”, “Oleshki” and “Poppies”.
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL / Ill. K. Rotova. - M.: NPO "Geolit", 1992. - 191 p.: ill.
"The Adventures of Captain Vrungel"
If the yacht from “Victory” becomes “Trouble” - expect major troubles. The ship may simply grow into the shore, and you will never see any circumnavigation of the world.
Casting off from the shore is a trifle for Captain Vrungel, but who knew what awaited him ahead?.. 
However, natural resourcefulness and the ability not to get confused in the most hopeless situation helped out. Who, if not Khristofor Bonifatievich, would have thought of receiving an SOS signal from a sailboat in distress when he had a bad tooth; using the London roosters that crow exclusively “Greenwich time”, you can check your watches and determine your coordinates; use a palm tree instead of a mast, common squirrels as draft power, Papuan boomerangs for playing golf, lemons as a remedy against sharks, and a fire extinguisher against a giant anaconda?..
If sailor Fuchs accidentally hatched small crocodiles at high temperatures, it doesn’t matter - everything will do on the farm! And even if it’s a yacht, that’s why it’s “Trouble”! - he will fall into the very center of the typhoon, there is no need to be discouraged - Captain Vrungel will somehow get out!..
By the way, if you are not strong in maritime terminology, which Khristofor Bonifatievich loves so much, then especially for you, the book includes the “Explanatory Dictionary for Stupid Land Readers” compiled by him personally. An extremely useful thing!
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL: Tale and stories. - M.: Det. lit., 1983. - 352 pp.: ill.
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL: Tale and Stories / Artist. A. Ilyin. - M.: ONIX 21st century, 2000. - 350 pp.: ill. - (Golden b-ka).
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL: Tale, stories / Artist. A.Akatyev, L.Falin. - M.: Tsentrpoligraf, 1997. - 427 p.: ill. - (Classic book of fairy-tale adventures).
Contents: The Adventures of Captain Vrungel: A Tale; Sea Boots: Stories; Tales of an old boatswain.
"Sea Boots"
These stories are also about the sea. But there is no fiction in them, although there are enough adventures. Here Andrei Nekrasov simply shares what he happened to see and experience during the years of his navigator service on the distant Sea of Okhotsk.
"Tales of the Old Boatswain"
On one long and tedious voyage, when there was more than enough free time, the completely bored Andrei Nekrasov was rescued by the old riverman Fyodor Stepanovich Bochkin, who had been sailing as a boatswain on the Yenisei for thirty years.
“He is a respectable, sensible man, he has seen a lot in his time, and no matter what the conversation turns to, Fyodor Stepanovich always has a funny story in stock, which he is not averse to telling on occasion.
In the evenings, sitting somewhere quiet, I listened to these stories for hours, and then, when, having wished me good night, the boatswain climbed into his cabin, I wrote down his stories, trying not to miss a word.”.
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL: A Tale / Fig. V. Bokovni. - L.: Det. lit., 1988. - 192 pp.: ill.
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL; STORIES / Ill. P. Severtseva. - M.: Press, 1992. - 334 p.: ill. - (Adventure World).
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL / Artist. A. Ilyin. - M.: Pushkinskaya b-ka: AST, 2005. - 319 p.: ill. - (Extracurricular reading).
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL / Artist. V. Vinokur; Raspe E. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen / Arr. text by O. Trifonova; Artist V. Vinokur; Swift J. Travels of Lemuel Gulliver / Trans. from English B. Engelhardt; Artist N. Aleshina. - M.: OLMA-Press Grand, 2004. - 442 p.: ill. - (Books of our childhood).
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL / [Art. V. Dmitryuk]. - M.: Moscow. club, 1994. - 159 pp.: color. ill.
THE ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN VRUNGEL: [Humorous. story] / Artist. G. Yudin. - M.: Dom, 1993. - 197 p.: ill.
STORIES ABOUT THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH / Artist. Yu. Kopeiko. - M.: Malysh, 1979. - 18 p.: ill.
How long does the Polar Day last? Why does the sea glow at night? What is a tornado like? What is a lighthouse for?
You can learn about this from very tiny stories about the North and South...
BLUE OCEAN. - M.: Malysh, 1966. -: ill. - (Your Motherland).
A TALE ABOUT CHEMISTRY. - M.: Malysh, 1965. - 16 p.: ill.
ELECTRIC SUN / Ed. N. Artemyeva. - M.; L.: Detizdat of the Central Committee of the Komsomol, 1936. - 31 p.: ill. - (B-ka young collective farmer).
Nekrasov A. The story of Vrungel // Out loud to myself: Sat. articles and essays by owls. det. writers: Book. second. - M.: Det. lit., 1978. - pp. 242-247.
Nekrasov A. Captain Vrungel, who is he? // Nekrasov A. The Adventures of Captain Vrungel. - M.: NPO "Geolit", 1992. - P. 182-190.
Nekrasov A. From the author // Nekrasov A. Novels and stories. - M.: Det. lit., 1967. - pp. 3-4.
Traveler, writer, dreamer: [To the 75th anniversary of A. Nekrasov: Interview with the writer] // Pioneer. - 1982. - No. 6. - P. 59-60.
Bogdanov N. Who is Vrungel based on, or the Extraordinary Adventures of Tops, nicknamed Plyashi-leg // Children's literature. - 1989. - No. 12. - P. 45-47.
Ivanov S. Famous captain // Pioneer. - 1977. - No. 6. - P. 64-65.
Kassil L. Circumnavigation of an utter liar // Children's literature. - 1939. - No. 7. - P. 17-20.
Rakhtanov I. Treatise on the nature of lies, or Distress Signal: Regarding the book by A. Nekrasov “The Adventures of Captain Vrungel” // Children's literature. - 1939. - No. 7. - P. 21-23.
Sivokon S. Poetry of resourcefulness // Sivokon S. Your cheerful friends: Essays on humor in the Soviet Union. literature for children. - Ed. 2nd, rev. and additional - M.: Det. lit., 1986. - pp. 32-44.
New adventures of Captain Vrungel. Artist movie. Scene A. Khmelik. Dir. G. Vasiliev. Comp. A. Rybnikov. USSR, 1978. Cast: M. Pugovkin, S. Martinson, V. Basov, S. Kramarov, R. Rudin and others.
The Adventures of Captain Vrungel. Cartoon. At 13 pm Dir. D. Cherkassky. Comp. G. Firtich. USSR, 1976-1979. The role of Captain Vrungel is voiced by Z. Gerdt. In other roles: E. Paperny, G. Shpigel and others.
Popular science films “Summer Day in the Forest”, “ATS”, etc. were also produced based on the scripts of A. Nekrasov.
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov is a famous Russian writer, poet, and also a publicist who created many unique and interesting literary masterpieces. In our article you can get acquainted with the list of the best works of this author.
“Who Lives Well in Rus'” is a poem written in 1866. Its plot is based on the long journey of seven peasants who set off in search of a truly happy and contented person. The book takes place after the complete abolition of serfdom, due to which people “breathed” in a new way. According to the author's idea, the poem should have consisted of 8 parts, but Nekrasov managed to divide it into only 4. The writing style is iambic trimeter.
Reading books develops your brain and broadens your horizons“Grandfather Mazai and the Hares” is a famous poem created in 1870. It tells about the small village of Malye Vezhi, located in the very depths of the Kostroma region, where old grandfather Mazai lives. During spring floods, these places turn into a kind of “Venice,” which makes it quite difficult for forest animals, and especially hares, to move and get food. Mazai was a kind and sensitive person, so he decided to come to the aid of defenseless animals and save them from death.
“Russian Women” is a collection of poems written in 1872, which is dedicated to the wives of the Decembrists. Brave and courageous women were not afraid of difficulties; they followed their husbands into Siberian exile. This work teaches people to be loyal, faithful and honest, no matter what.
“Frost, Red Nose” is a unique and one might even say mysterious poem by Nikolai Nekrasov, published in 1864. In this work, the technique of prototypes is used, that is, under the guise of “Frost the Governor,” the author describes the hard peasant labor, love, death and the experiences of the people suffering from hunger in those difficult times for the entire country.
“The Railway” is one of the most famous poems by Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, published in 1864. The work describes the grandiose construction of a railway that connected major Russian cities. The story is told in the first person. The author is traveling on a train and overhears a conversation between an important general and his son about how the railroad they are traveling on was created. The official lied to his son, but the narrator cannot stand it and tells the boy the truth that this road was built at the cost of the lives of several hundred innocent Russian men.
“Dead Lake” is a poem created in 1869. Despite its mysterious and mysterious title, it describes the life of Russian society in the 19th century. The main characters of the work are aristocrats, nobles, landowners, merchants, famous actors of that time, and even thieves and criminals. While reading a book, the reader is completely immersed in its atmosphere and feels “all the delights” of that life.
“Three Countries of the World” is a poem created by Nekrasov in 1849 together with the writer Avdotya Yakovlevna Panayeva. The plot is based on the journey of the young noble son Kayutin, who decided to travel around all of Rus'. He laid out 2 routes: from Novaya Zemlya (an archipelago in the Arctic Ocean) to the Caspian Plain, from Novgorod land to Alaska. How will his unusual journey go? You can find out about this after reading the poem.
“General Toptygin” is a comic poem by Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, written in 1873, shortly before the writer’s death (in 1877). The action of the work takes place at a fair in a provincial town. Events of this kind usually attracted artists and buffoons from all over the country. One of them performed with his trained bear, who was wearing a green cap, very similar to a general’s. The city authorities considered this an insult to high officials and immediately kicked out the artist. How did this story end? You can find out after you read the poem.
"The Green Noise" is a poem published in 1863. This work was created after Nekrasov visited Ukraine. Returning back, he was so impressed by the beauty of the local nature and the color of the inhabitants of that country that he immediately began creating an extraordinary literary masterpiece.
“The Petersburg Moneylender” is a poem published in 1867. Its plot is based on the story of the moneylender Loskutkov, who is engaged in issuing money loans, as well as his daughter Elizaveta. The girl fell in love with a local nobleman and handsome man, very popular with women, whose name was Nalimov Ivan Fedorovich. The young man also pays attention to Elizabeth and asks her father for her hand in marriage. But Loskutkov demands money from him for this. Nalimov comes up with a cunning plan to teach his greedy dad a lesson. How will he do this?
“Knights for an Hour” is an unusual lyric poem by Nekrasov, which was published in 1873. In this work, the author, under the guise of a courageous knight, describes a peasant society fighting the bourgeoisie of that time. At one fine moment, the knight begins to have insomnia, he decides to go outside and just walk, feeling the fresh air (the personification of freedom), magnificent landscapes (the beauty of Russia) and views of a dilapidated poor village (a prototype of serfs).
“Autumn Boredom” is a lyrical poem created in 1873. The action of the work takes place in the small village of Lasukovka. The landowner became very bored one dead autumn evening, and he decided to have a little fun, coming up with the most ridiculous and funny assignments for his subjects. What were they like? You can only learn about this in a book.
“A Little Man with a Marigold” is a poem by Nekrasov, written in 1856, which tells about the difficult village life of a large family with only one breadwinner - the father. A man works day and night to feed his children and wife. One day he and his six-year-old son go to the forest to chop wood. Despite the fact that the boy is very small for this activity, he happily helps his dad.
"Reflections at the Front Door" is a poem written in 1858. The plot begins at the front entrance of one of the prestigious and stately houses of a large city. A lot of noble and ordinary people always gather here: merchants, influential officials, rich nobles, as well as peasants and ordinary working citizens. The author gives the reader a chance to “overhear” what the main characters say, what they discuss while at the front door.
"Sasha" is a poem published in 1855. It tells about the luxurious and carefree life of the girl Sasha, the daughter of influential landowners at that time. Parents cannot stop looking at their daughter, they cherish her in every possible way and unquestioningly fulfill her every wish. Sasha turns 16 years old. She becomes interested in another life, where there is no excessive care from parents and nannies. She wants to break free. Will she succeed?
“On the Road” is a poem that was written in 1865. It tells about the main character's carriage ride. The road ahead was long, which means boring and tedious, so he decides to talk to the coachman, who will gladly tell the story of his life. This is how a rather funny and unprepossessing conversation ensues. What were the heroes of the work talking about? You can find out by reading this poem.
“Schoolboy” is a poem created by Nekrasov in 1856. It tells the story of a simple peasant boy who loved studying so much that he decided to go to the city to study. The boy grew up in a rather poor family, so he is very worried about whether he will be accepted at the city school or whether he will be kicked out. What will the boy get? You can find out about this in this work.
“About the Weather” is a poem written in 1858. The theme of the suffering of the poor, disadvantaged people of the 19th century is discussed here, not only of those who lived in villages and villages, but also of people living in St. Petersburg. Many people in those days died of hunger and disease right on the streets of the great city. The author is trying to expose deceitful officials who think only about the “thickness” of their wallet.
“And the troika still flies like an arrow” is a poem written in 1867, which describes the riotous life of the nobility. After another idle feast, the company goes for a ride through the fields on three horses. The main lyrical character, observing what is happening around him, describes the beauties of nature and admires them.
The above books, written by Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov, are the best and most unique, but there are those in which readers show no less interest. These include:
In this article you learned about the most interesting, unusual and popular literary works of Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov. Each of his books is filled with pain, suffering and experiences of peasants who lived in Russia in the 19th century. The author was very sensitive and respectful towards these people, which is why he decided to devote so many poems and a poem to this topic.
