Mikhail Artsybashev facts for kids
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Mikhail Artsybashev
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| Born | November 5, 1878 Kharkov, Russian Empire |
| Died | March 3, 1927 (aged 48) Warsaw, Poland |
| Nationality | Ukrainian |
| Period | 1900s-1920s |
| Genre | Fiction, drama |
| Literary movement | Naturalism |
| Children | Boris Artzybasheff |
Mikhail Petrovich Artsybashev (Russian: Михаи́л Петро́вич Арцыба́шев, Polish: Michał Arcybaszew) was a Russian writer and playwright. He was born on November 5, 1878, and passed away on March 3, 1927. He was a big supporter of a writing style called naturalism.
Mikhail was the father of Boris Artzybasheff. Boris later moved to the United States and became a famous illustrator. After the Russian Revolution, Mikhail Artsybashev moved to Poland in 1923. He lived there until he died in 1927.
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About Mikhail Artsybashev
His Early Life and Family
Mikhail Artsybashev was born in a small village called Dubroslavivka. This village was in what is now Sumy Oblast, Ukraine. His father owned a small piece of land and used to be an army officer.
Mikhail's mother was Polish. She sadly died from tuberculosis when he was only three years old. He also had family roots from France, Georgia, and Tatar people.
He went to school in a town called Okhtyrka until he was 16. From 1895 to 1897, he worked in an office. He also studied art at the Kharkov School of Drawing and Art from 1897 to 1898. During this time, he was very poor and often couldn't afford art supplies.
In 1898, he married Anna Vasilyevna Kobushko. They had a son named Boris. However, they separated in 1900.
His Writing Career
In 1898, Mikhail moved to Saint Petersburg. There, he worked as a freelance journalist. He also started publishing funny stories. In 1901, he was asked to leave the city because he took part in a protest.
He wrote his first important story, Pasha Tumanov, in 1901. But he couldn't publish it until 1905. This was because it was banned by the people who checked books before they were published (called censors).
Mikhail thought his best work was a novel called The Death of Ivan Lande, which he wrote in 1904. But his most famous book was Sanin, published in 1907. This book caused a lot of discussion in Russia and was banned in many countries. He wrote Sanin in 1903, but it also took a long time to be published due to censorship.
Mikhail Artsybashev shared who influenced his writing. He said that Leo Tolstoy had a very strong impact on him. He also mentioned Fyodor Dostoyevsky and Anton Chekhov. Other important writers for him were Victor Hugo and Johann Wolfgang von Goethe. He saw these five writers as his teachers and masters.
In 1913, he talked about what he looked for in a good book. He wanted books to have clear ideas and a thoughtful way of looking at things. He believed in common sense and clear writing.
He also mentioned that some people thought Friedrich Nietzsche influenced him. But Mikhail said he had never read Nietzsche. He found another thinker, Max Stirner, much easier to understand.
Later Years and Moving to Poland
Mikhail Artsybashev moved to Moscow in 1912. From 1917 to 1918, he published his work Notes of a Writer. This work was against the Bolshevik government.
In 1923, he moved to Poland. He was able to do this because his mother was Polish. In Poland, he worked as an editor for a newspaper called For Liberty!. He was strongly against the Bolshevik government. Because of this, Soviet critics used his name to create negative terms for writers who followed his style.
Mikhail Artsybashev passed away in Warsaw on March 3, 1927. He died from tuberculosis and was buried in the Orthodox Cemetery in Warsaw.
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Mikhail Artsybashev, around 1905.
See also
In Spanish: Mijaíl Artsibáshev para niños
