The Russian and later Soviet writer Mikhail Prishvin left us a significant literary heritage. His works are full of profound and philosophical thoughts about our essence, about the nature of human existence, about our connection with mother nature. They make you think after reading, and touch the most delicate strings of our soul.
Young Mikhail Prishvin studied very badly – he stayed twice in the second year, and stayed the third time, but he was expelled from school because of a quarrel with one of the teachers. He lost his father at the age of 7 – he lost a lot of cards and soon died from a nervous shock, broken by paralysis. Membership in a Marxist circle cost Prishvin two years of life spent behind bars. Immediately after his release, he moved abroad. Prishvin led a friendship with Maxim Gorky. He did not live anywhere for a long time, often changing his place of residence throughout his life.
In addition to literary activity, Prishvin made a significant contribution to the development of domestic agronomy, having achieved considerable success in this field. Cars were one of Prishvin’s constant hobbies. He purchased his first car, the Moskvich, in 1930, and from then until his death, he never parted with cars. And on car rides he invariably took his dogs with him. While studying in Leipzig, Mikhail fell in love with a young Englishwoman, but she did not reciprocate. Disappointed Prishvin could not bear it, so he soon interrupted his studies and returned to his homeland. Prishvin’s first marriage lasted thirty years. And at the age of 67, after a divorce, he married a second time. On the fronts of the First World War, Mikhail Prishvin visited as a war correspondent. At the age of 33, Prishvin unexpectedly left the service and went on foot on a long journey to the Russian North. The impressions received during his travels, later had a huge impact on his work.
Prishvin’s book The Diaries, on which he worked for 49 years, is several times larger in volume than all 8 volumes of his complete collection of the rest of the works. Mikhail himself considered Diaries the main work in his life. Photography was also one of Prishvin’s hobbies, and he was a very talented photographer. Prishvin inherited a rural estate was confiscated by the Bolsheviks. The story “The Worldly Bowl” was released only almost 60 years after writing, because it was not missed by the Soviet censorship. And personally, Trotsky recognized her as a very talented written work, which does not fit, nevertheless, within the framework of the Soviet ideology.
