The philistine happiness. Molotov. Essays on Bursa

Nikolai Gerasimovich Prymyalovsky (1835-1863) is known today by only three works. From the stories "philistine happiness" and "Molotov" in the language there were expressions "Chinese young lady" and "philistine happiness". But the "Essays on the Bursa" firmly took a place on a shelf with the great Russian literature of the 19th century. “He managed to say about Bursa and so that he fixed the topic forever ... written by Prymyalovsky was not just a creative act, but a civil act as an advanced fighter, he was the first to attacked the enemy "(Valery Sazhin) Prymyalovsky knew this enemy thoroughly. Father gave him to Bursa - the Alexander Nevsky Spiritual School - at the age of eight. He left Bursa, and then from the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary in twenty -two. His experience of study and education is the experience of a convict. In the book, he is present under the name of crucian carp. An amazing coincidence: "Essays on the Bursa" were published in one book of the journal Time (No. 5 for 1862) with "Notes from the Dead House" Dostoevsky - and this forever connected them in the perception of readers. It was the words "children"s hard labor" who most often sounded when discussing essays in society.

Valery Sazhina"s accompanying article

Valery Nikolayevich Sazhin (born 1946, Leningrad) - literary critic, author of books and articles on Russian literature and culture of the XVIII -xx centuries. A graduate of the faculty of the Russian language and literature of the Leningrad State Pedagogical Institute. A.I. Herzen. In 1968-1992 - Researcher at the manuscript department of the State Public Library. M.E. Saltykova-Shchedrin. Prepared the first complete works of D. Harms in 6 vols (St. Petersburg, 1997-2001) and several of his collections, as well as the collection of poems by B. Okudzhava (library of the poet, St. Petersburg, 2001), I. Barkov (library of the poet, St. Petersburg ., 2004), a collection of works by L. S. Lipavsky ("Study of horror", M., 2005), Diary of L.V. Shaporina in 2 volumes (M., 2012) Author of books: "Books of Gorky Pravda" (M., 1989), "Power of Fate. Documentary Chronicle of 1861 "(St. Petersburg, 2010) Member of the Union of Writers of St. Petersburg since 1994