Vasily Avseenko
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| Born |
17 January 1842 Moscow Governorate, Russian Empire |
| Died | 11 August 1913 (aged 71) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire |
| Nationality | Russian |
| Genre | fiction, criticism |
Vasily Grigorievich Avseenko (Russian: Васи́лий Григо́рьевич Авсе́енко, 17 [o.s. 5] January, 1842, Moscow Governorate, - August 11 [o.s.July 29] 1913, Saint Petersburg) was a Russian literary critic, writer and journalist.
Vasily Avseenko was born in 1842 into a wealthy noble family. In 1852 he became a student at the first Saint Petersburg gymnasium. There, influenced by his teacher, the well-known philologist V. A. Vodovozov, and senior students, Vsevolod Krestovsky among them, he started writing poetry. He published only one poem in the 1869 August issue of Modny Magazine, under the pseudonym V. Poroshilov. In 1856 he joined the first Kiev gymnasium and, upon graduation, enrolled at the St. Vladimir University in Kiev where he studied history. As a student he started publishing articles on the history of Russia and Ukraine, in major magazines including Russkoye slovo, 1860-1861; Russkaya retch, 1861; Otechestvennye zapiski, 1863; The Russian Messenger, 1863, and Vestnik Evropy, 1866.
Upon his graduation in 1862 Avseenko remained as a teacher of history. In the 1860s he became an active contributor to the newspaper Kievlyanin, led by Vitaly Shulgin. In a pro-Moscow conservative newspaper which condemned 'progressive' ideas, the Polish movement and Ukrainian nationalism, Avseenko became one of the most prominent voices. His Malorossia in 1767 historical treatise was published as a separate book. In 1869 Avseenko moved to Saint Petersburg to join first the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, then in 1873 the Ministry of Education. Soon he became a prominent figure in local literary circles. He became close to the staff of Zarya magazine where he met Dmitry Averkiev, Nikolai Strakhov, Aleksey Pisemsky, and Fyodor Berg.
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