Evgeny Salias De Tournemire
| Evgeny Salias De Tournemire | |
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| Born |
April 25, 1840 Moscow, Imperial Russia |
| Died | December 18, 1908 (aged 68) Moscow, Imperial Russia |
| Pen name | Vadim |
| Occupation | Novelist • editor |
| Ethnicity | French (father) • Russian (mother) |
| Citizenship | French (originally), Russian (since early 1876) |
| Genre | adventure novel |
| Subject | history |
| Notable works | The Pugachov's Men (1874) |
| Website | |
| http://az.lib.ru/s/salias_e_a | |
Count Evgeny Andreyevich Salias de Tournemire (Russian: Евгений Андреевич Салиас-де-Турнемир, 25 April 1840 – 18 December 1908) was a Russian writer, best known for his adventure novels based upon various episodes of Russian history of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
Evgeny Salias de Tournemire was born in Moscow, to the French citizen, Count Andre Salias de Tournemire, and his Russian wife, Elizaveta Vasilyevna (née Sukhovo-Kobylina), who later became a well-known author in her own right, writing under the pseudonym Evgenya Tur.
After graduating from the Moscow's 3rd Gymnasium in 1859 he enrolled in Moscow University to study law. In 1861 he took part in the students' manifestations and was one of the three envoys chosen to be sent to Saint Petersburg with a petition to Alexander II. Later that year for that very reason he was expelled from the University and in the early 1862 left Russia for France with his mother. It was there that he started to write.
Salias de Tournemire debuted as a published author in 1863 as the then Alexey Pisemsky-led Biblioteka Dlya Chtenya published his debut short novel Xanya the Weird (Ксаня чудная). It was followed by Darkness (Тьма), The Jewess (Еврейка) and Manzhaja (Манжажа), all four lauded by critics. Nikolai Ogaryov, writing to Evgenya Tur, congratulated her with her son's success and expressed delight with the birth of 'a new fine Russian writer'.
Having extensively travelled Spain (this journey resulted in a series of sketches called "Letters from Spain") and Italy (where he met the painter Alexander Ivanov), in 1869 Salias de Tournemire returned to Russia and in 1876 received his Russian citizenship. During the years that preceded it, he worked as a lawyer and state official in Tula and Tambov, respectively, but also wrote Gavriil Derzhavin's biography (The Governor Poet, Поэт-наместник, 1871), a sentimental short novel Pandurochka (Пандурочка), and, most significantly, his first historical novel The Pugachov Men (Пугачёвцы), having conducted an extensive archive research, and making personal visits to the sites of battles fought by Emelyan Pugachov's army. Originally published by Russky vestnik in 1874, the novel enjoyed enormous success with the readership, even meeting with mixed reviews, some critics accusing the author of choosing as a template Lev Tolstoy's War and Peace and following it too obviously.
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