The life of the famous writer and poet Vsevolod Garshin was cut short too soon, it is a fact. This amazing person with an interesting look at art lived only 33 years, for which, however, he managed to make a significant contribution to the development of literature. Alas, his biography ends sadly – suffering from a nervous breakdown, he committed suicide, leaving behind only his work.
His kind he led from the Tatar nobles. At least, this is the story of the family tradition, and the researchers of Garshin’s biography agree with him. The future writer was not able to finish his studies at the institute because of the start of the war with the Ottomans. To fight, he left a volunteer. One of the ancestors of Vsevolod Garshin was a notable Murza during the time of the Golden Horde, but he switched to the service of Ivan III (see interesting facts about Ivan III). At the age of seven, V. Garshin read such a serious and profound work as “Notre-Dame de Paris”. In addition to literary work, Garshin also managed to stay and art critic. In art, he understood very subtly.
He had a heightened sense of justice, which is why his friends called him Hamlet of the Heart, referring to the hero of Shakespeare’s tragedy. Studying in the 7th grade of the gymnasium, Garshin briefly went to the hospital for their mentally ill because of mental instability. V. Garshin was a friend of the artist Repin, and it was he who posed for him for the famous painting, popularly known as “Ivan the Terrible kills his son”. Vsevolod Garshin personally took part in the fighting during the war with the Ottoman Empire, and in one of the battles he was wounded in the leg. Garshin’s story “Four Days” was written by him at the hospital, where he ended up after being wounded at the front. It is based on his own military impressions. Soon after the Bolshevik revolution, the work of Vsevolod Garshin “The Signal” was filmed.
It was he who wrote the famous “Frog Traveler”. All his life, Garshin was an extremely impressionable and nervous man. All his contemporaries noted this, and connected him with his extremely rapid mental development. His first work was a school essay called Death. For him, he received 4.5 points out of 5. Throughout his life, V. Garshin was pursued by recurring deep depressions, sometimes delayed for a long time. Such famous writers as Chekhov and Turgenev spoke very highly of the work of Vsevolod Garshin. At the 33rd year of his life, he committed suicide by rushing into a flight of stairs. For his life fought a few more days, but in vain.
