Baby TsACES, nicknamed Tsinovber

Ernst Theodor Wilhelm Hoffmann (1776-1822) in 1805 changed the name Wilhelm to Amadeus, in honor of his idol Mozart. An amazing alloy of skills and talents: a lawyer by education, a musician and an artist. He hated the service, but all attempts to earn a living by art suffered a collapse, and he was forced to go into presence. And in the hours, free from the bureaucous routine, the compositions of operas and coloring the walls, he came up with fairy tales and novels. And it was unlikely that it was from this side that immortality would get to him. True, far from right away. In Germany, at that time, there was a beautiful romanticism in fashion, and Hoffmann always offered the reader something ugly and terrible: the mouse king with his retinue, a sand man, crumb Tsahes ... The townsfolk was perplexed: why did he seem like that? So the same number of years in the public service, gentlemen! I looked around! The cruel realism of the Hoffmann storyteller was highly appreciated in Russia. Belinsky called him a "painter of the inner world", and Dostoevsky re-read the whole Hoffmann in Russian and German. And much, as we know, learned