Each of us read or watched a fairy tale as a child.“Little Humpbacked Horse”, but what do we know about its author, who is P. P. Ershov? The biography of this person is not widely known. Moreover, some consider this fairy tale popular. To whom he was and in what years the author of the famous work lived, and this article is dedicated.
Gymnasium at this time is headed by Ivan Mendeleev,the father of the famous chemist, he takes patronage over Peter. Largely thanks to such a mentor in 1831, he graduated from the gymnasium with honors from P. P. Ershov.
The biography of the writer is also interesting becauseErshov himself was a versatile person. Already in his youth, he knew how to play the flute and harpsichord, and also engaged in collecting local legends and legends, which he recorded and kept.
In the same 1831, Pavel Ershov sought his transfer to Petersburg. Thanks to the patronage of the governor of Siberia, the Yershov family turns out to be in Northern Palmyra.
Impressed by the architecturalthe magnificence of St. Petersburg on the young Ershov. In addition, this city gave him many acquaintances, which later played a large role in the life of the writer.
Upon arrival, Yershov submits documents toImperial University on the Faculty of History and Philology. But due to the weak knowledge of European languages, it is accepted only for philosophical and legal. At university, he did not differ by diligence and was very negligent in his studies - as P. P. Ershov himself stated.
A writer's biography is also numerous.loss. So, in 1833, his father died, and soon his elder brother. Peter Pavlovich remains with a sick mother. The financial situation of the family is deteriorating.
Одновременно с этим в студенческие годы пишется The first part of the famous "Humpbacked Horse". The tale was published in 1834 in the journal Library for Reading. In the same year it was published as a separate edition, including all three parts. PP Yershov (whose biography became the topic of our article) was then a nineteen-year-old youth.
In the Petersburg years, the writer is seriously interested in theater and opera. The reason for this - his love of music, rendered from childhood.
Inspired by the success, Ershov continues to write and publish. Thus, two pieces (Thomas the Blacksmith and Suvorov and the Stationmaster), as well as a number of poems, come from his pen.
Due to the deplorable financial situation in 1836, Yershov submits a petition to the position of teacher and leaves for Tobolsk.
So, comes back to work in his owngymnasium Ershov Peter Pavlovich, whose biography is not so brilliant as the fate of his famous fairy tale. He teaches Latin, literature and philosophy. The then director E. M. Kachurin in every way molested the celebrity who had come from St. Petersburg.
In 1839, Ershov marries a widow with fourchildren, Seraphim Alexandrovna Leshcheva. The young teacher waited a long time for her consent to the marriage. From now on, the main thing in the writer's life is making money to feed a large family.
Far from happy was the fate of Ershov, helost many loved ones. Having lost his father, brother and mother in his youth, in his mature years he buried two wives, and of his 15 children only four survived to come of age.
However, all his sufferingshumbly accepted Yershov P.P. A brief biography of this person could only be represented by a list of losses. As a true Christian, the poet did not grumble and did not despair. Moreover, he had time to engage in creativity. So, the poem “Suzge”, the story “The Siberian Cossack”, the stories “Autumn Evenings” and several poems saw the light.
The last years of his life were spent in relative peace. Peter Pavlovich died in 1869 and was buried in Tobolsk in the Zavalny cemetery.
Ershov Pyotr Pavlovich experienced a lot of amazing events, whose biography without mentioning even the most interesting of them would be incomplete.
As noted above, in childhood the writervery sick. And once, when the child’s condition deteriorated altogether, desperate parents ventured to perform a magical rite. He looked like this: the child was sold for a penny to a beggar who, according to legends, took away all his illnesses and sorrows. On this occasion, in his mature years, Yershov joked that he for sure knew his price - a penny.
During his life in Siberia, Yershov was the patronDmitri Ivanovich Mendeleev, a famous scientist. Since the boy's father died when the child was only 13 years old, Dmitry needed a mentor. And it was P. Ershov who helped Mendeleev to enter St. Petersburg Pedagogical University.
A biography for the children of this writer could only be collected from the amazing and remarkable cases that were numerous in his life.
The history of this work is veryis unusual. One of the teachers at Yershov at the university was Pletnev, a great friend of Pushkin. Once he gave an assignment to students to write a paper about folk art. The writing of the young writer shocked Pletnev, and he even read an excerpt at a lecture. This manuscript was the first part of The Little Humpbacked Horse. The tale was shown to Pushkin, who responded about it with great enthusiasm.
The tale was written in verse and told about the youngest of three sons, who were entrusted with protecting the fields from an unknown thief at night.
Hard, but interesting and eventful lifelived P.P. Ershov, whose biography was reviewed in the article. Unfortunately, besides the fairy-tale “The Little Humpbacked Horse”, not a single work of the writer had any success with the public. And the complete works of Ershov came out only in 2005.
