biography
| name: |
Aksakov, Sergei Timofeyevitch
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pronunciation:
[aksahkof]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1791–1859)
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| biography:
| Novelist, born in Ufa, W Russia. The son of a wealthy landowner, he held government posts in St Petersburg and Moscow before a meeting with Gogol in 1832 turned him to literature. His house became the centre of a Gogol cult. He wrote The Blizzard (trans, 1834), Chronicles of a Russian Family (trans, 1846–56), and Years of Childhood (trans, 1858). His writing shows his love of country sports and deep feeling for nature. |
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