In a bad society

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko (1853-1921) - Russian writer, publicist, editor of the leading St. Petersburg magazine "Russian wealth", public figure, author of the topical works "Dream of Makar", "Kilitsa", "Blind Musician" and others in 1900, along with With L. Tolstoy, A. Chekhov, Vl. Solovyov was elected an honorary academician of the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences in the category of elegant literature.
Korolenko was born in Zhytomyr in the family of a county judge, whose character is harsh, but fair - became the basis for creating the image of the father of the main character of the story "in a bad society". The acute rejection of injustice forced Korolenko as a student to join revolutionaries -people - for this he was expelled from the Petrovsky agricultural academy and sent to Kronstadt. Then there were other links, the status of "political", a prison, but it was in such difficult conditions that a writer"s gift was opened.
The famous story "in a bad society" was written by Korolenko in a 6-year-old Yakut link (he refused the oath to the king) Not only the father, but, as the author himself wrote, many features are taken from nature ", there is a prototype from the old castle - this is the palace of the Princes of Lyubomirsky in Rivne.
The story was published in 1886 in the book "Essays and Tales", but in the same year in the Rodnik children"s magazine, her abbreviated version appeared under the heading "Children of the Dungeon": in such a trimmed form, it was reprinted many times.
Korolenko did not approve of adaptation: "I have some prejudice against special publications for youth: after all, this needs to be enlisted with special approvals" for school libraries. "In a bad society", for example, it goes in tens of thousands of copies of cheap publications in abbreviated and contro -hearted form