My wanderings

The “main householder of Moscow” - as is most often called Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky (1855-1935), writer, poet and one of the best reporters of his time. However, he began with completely other professions - without having finished his studies in the Vologda gymnasium of the year, he walked along with Kostroma to Rybinsk, worked as a hook in the port, a stoker at the factory, the herd, entered the Junker School, from where he was expelled for a month after violation of violations for violation disciplines, but went through the Russo-Turkish war by free-determining, was a circus, a magnificent rider, played in provincial theaters, mastered the craft of a fireman ...
His path from Burlac to the famous metropolitan reporter was not easy and remarkably described in the book "My Wandering". Two cycles of memoirs "Friends and Meetings" and "Theater People" complement this collection of memoirs of V. A. Gilyarovsky