If only you knew what kind of rubbish... Very true words! Poems, stories and novels really sometimes grow out of such rubbish that people who are far from creative efforts even become scared. Gather unusual facts about writers is like picking mushrooms in the blind rainy season. Rip - I don’t want to! As a matter of fact, all the facts about writers in general are unusual, if not extraordinary. Judge for yourself.
001 William Shakespeare born and died on the same day (but, fortunately, on different years) - On April 23, 1564, he was born and 52 years later he died on the same day.
002 On the same day with Shakespeare another one died great writer — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra. The author of Don Quixote died on April 23, 1616.
003 Contemporaries claimed that Shakespeare was fond of poaching - he hunted deer in the domain of Sir Thomas Lucy, without any permission from this very Lucy.
004 Great poet Byron he was lame, prone to being overweight and extremely loving - in a year in Venice, according to some reports, he made 250 ladies happy with himself, lame and fat.
005 U Byron there was an amazing personal collection - strands of hair cut from the pubes of beloved women. The locks (or perhaps curls) were kept in envelopes on which the names of the hostesses were romantically inscribed. Some researchers argue that it was possible to admire (if this word is appropriate here) the poet’s collection back in the 1980s, after which traces of vegetation were lost.
006 And also great poet Byron loved spending time with boys, including, alas, minors. We don’t even comment on this! 250 ladies wasn’t enough for the scoundrel!
007 Well, a little more about Byron- He loved animals very much. Fortunately, not in the sense that you may have put into this phrase after reading about Byron a little higher. The romantic poet adored animals platonically and even kept a menagerie in which a badger, monkeys, horses, a parrot, a crocodile and many other animals lived.
008 U Charles Dickens I had a very difficult childhood. When his dad went to debtor's prison, little Charlie was sent to work... no, not in a chocolate factory, but in a blacking factory, where he stuck labels on jars from morning to evening. Not dusty, you say? But stick them from morning to evening instead of playing football with the boys, and you will understand why Dickens’ images of unfortunate orphans were so convincing.
009 In 1857 to Dickens came to visit Hans Christian Andersen. This is not a Kharms joke, this is life itself! Andersen and Dickens met back in 1847, were completely delighted with each other, and now, 10 years later, the Dane decided to take advantage of the invitation given to him. The trouble is that over the years in Dickens’s life everything has changed a lot and become more complicated - he was not ready to accept Andersen, and he lived with him for almost five weeks! “He doesn’t speak any languages except his Danish, although there are suspicions that he doesn’t know that either,” Dickens told his friends about his guest in this way. Poor Andersen became the target of ridicule from the numerous descendants of the author of Little Dorrit, and when he left, Dad Dickens left a note in his room: “Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks, which seemed like years to our family.” And you also ask why Andersen wrote such sad fairy tales?
010 And also Dickens was fond of hypnosis, or, as they said then, mesmerism.
011 One of my favorite entertainments Dickens there were trips to the Paris morgue, where unidentified bodies were exhibited. Truly a dear person!
012 Oscar Wilde did not take Dickens's writings seriously and mocked them for any reason. In general, modern Charles Dickens critics endlessly hinted that he would never be included in the list of the best British writers. And we’ll get to Oscar Wilde later.
013 But Dickens ordinary readers devotedly loved - in 1841 in the port of New York, where the sequel was to be brought final chapters“Antiquities shops,” 6 thousand people gathered, and everyone shouted to the passengers of the mooring ship: “Will little Nell die?”
014 Dickens could not work if the tables and chairs in his office were not arranged as they should be. Only he knew how to do it - and each time he began work by rearranging the furniture.
015 Charles Dickens He disliked monuments so much that in his will he strictly forbade him from erecting them. The only bronze statue of Dickens is in Philadelphia. By the way, the statue was initially rejected by the writer’s family.
016 American writer O.Henry began writing career in prison, where he ended up for embezzlement. And things went so well for him that everyone soon forgot about prison.
017 Ernest Hemingway He was not only an alcoholic and a suicide, as everyone knows. He also had peiraphobia (fear of public speaking), in addition, he never believed the praise of even his most sincere readers and admirers. I didn’t even believe my friends, and that’s all!
018 Hemingway survived five wars, four automobile and two air crashes. As a child, his mother also forced him to attend dance school. And over time he himself began to call himself Pope.
019 Same Hemingway often and willingly talked about the fact that the FBI was watching him. The interlocutors smiled wryly, but in the end it turned out that the Pope was right - declassified documents confirmed that this was indeed surveillance, and not paranoia.
020 First in history to use the word “gay” in literature Gertrude Stein- a lesbian writer who hated punctuation and gave the world the definition of “the lost generation.”
021 Oscar Wilde- as well as Ernest Hemingway— as a child, I spent a long time dressing up in girls’ dresses. In both cases, we note, it ended badly.
023 Honore de Balzac I loved coffee - I drank about 50 cups of strong Turkish coffee a day. If it was not possible to make coffee, the writer simply ground a handful of beans and chewed them with great pleasure.
024 Balzac believed that ejaculation is a waste of creative energy, since semen is a brain substance. Once, talking with a friend after a successful conversation, the writer exclaimed bitterly: “This morning I lost my novel!”
025 Edgar Alan Poe I've been afraid of the dark all my life. Perhaps one of the reasons for this fear was that as a child the future writer studied... in a cemetery. The school where the boy went was so poor that it was impossible to buy textbooks for the children. A resourceful math teacher taught classes in a nearby cemetery, among the graves. Each student chose tombstone and calculated how many years the deceased had lived by subtracting the date of birth from the date of death. It is not surprising that Poe grew up to become what he became - the founder of world horror literature.
026 The most psychedelic writer of all times should be recognized Lewis Carroll, the shy British mathematician who wrote the Alice stories. His writings were inspired by the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Tim Burton and others.
027 Real name Lewis Carroll- Charles Lutwidge Dodgson. He had the ecclesiastical rank of deacon, and in his personal diaries, Carroll constantly repented of some sin. However, these pages were destroyed by the writer’s family so as not to discredit his image. Some researchers seriously believe that Carroll was Jack the Ripper, who, as we know, was never found.
028 Carroll suffered from swamp fever, cystitis, lumbago, eczema, furunculosis, arthritis, pleurisy, rheumatism, insomnia and a whole bunch of different diseases. In addition, he had an almost constant - and very severe - headache.
029 The author of “Alice” was a passionate fan technical progress, and he himself personally invented a tricycle, a mnemonic system for remembering names and dates, an electric pen, and it was he who came up with the idea of writing the title of a book on the spine and created the prototype of everyone’s favorite game Scrabble.
030 Franz Kafka was the grandson of a kosher butcher and a strict vegetarian.
031 Great American Poet Walt Whitman adhered to a very specific sexual orientation. He admired, however, first of all Abraham Lincoln, whom he praised in the poem “Oh, captain!” My captain!". And once Whitman met another gay icon - the sarcastic Irishman Oscar Wilde, who so disliked Charles Dickens (who, in turn, did not like Andersen, see above). Wilde told Whitman that he adored Leaves of Grass, which his mother often read to him as a child, after which Whitman kissed the “excellent, large and handsome young man” right on the lips. “I can still feel Whitman’s kiss on my lips,” the author of “The Picture of Dorian Gray” shared with his friends. Brr!
032 Mark Twain - literary pseudonym a man named Samuel Langhorne Clemens. In addition, Twain also had the pseudonyms Tramp, Josh, Thomas Jefferson Snodgrass, Sergeant Fathom and W. Epaminondas Adrastus Blab. By the way, “Mark Twain”, a concept from the field of navigation, means “measure two” fathoms: this is how the minimum depth suitable for navigation was noted.
033 Mark Twain was friends with one of the most mysterious people of his time - the inventor Nikola Tesla. The writer himself patented several inventions, such as self-adjusting suspenders and a scrapbook with adhesive pages.
034 And also Twain he adored cats and hated children (he even wanted to erect a monument to King Herod). Once a great writer said: “If it were possible to cross a person with a cat, the human race would only benefit from this, but the cat breed would clearly worsen.”
035 Twain was a heavy smoker (he is the author of the phrase, which is now attributed to everyone: “There is nothing easier than quitting smoking. I know, I’ve done it a thousand times”). He started smoking when he was eight years old and smoked 20 to 40 cigars daily until his death. The writer chose the smelliest and cheapest cigars.
036 Author of the “Lord of the Rings” trilogy J.R.R. Tolkien he was an extremely bad driver, snored so much that he had to spend the night in the bathroom so as not to disturb his wife’s sleep, and was also a terrible Francophobe - he hated the French since William the Conqueror.
037 On his wedding night with Sophia Bers, 34 years old Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy forced his 18-year-old newly married wife to read those pages in his diary, which described in detail the amorous adventures of the writer with different women, among others - with serf peasant women. Tolstoy wanted there to be no secrets between him and his wife.
038 Agatha Christie She suffered from dysgraphia, meaning she could practically not write by hand. All of her famous novels were dictated.
039 Chekhov was a big fan of going to a brothel - and? When I found myself in a foreign city, the first thing I did was study it from this side.
040 James Joyce More than anything else, he was afraid of dogs and thunderstorms, hated monuments and was a masochist.
041 When Tolstoy in old age he left home, most of the reporters rushed after him, and only one, the most shrewd Zhurka came to Yasnaya Polyana- find out how Sofia Andreevna is doing. Soon the editor received a telegram: “The Countess is running across the pond with a changed face.” This is how the reporter described Sofia Andreevna’s intention to drown herself. Subsequently, the phrase was picked up by two completely different writers - Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov, presenting it to their brilliant hero Ostap Bender.
042 William Faulkner He worked as a postman for several years until it turned out that he often threw undelivered letters into the trash bin.
043 Jack London was a socialist, and in addition - the first American writer in history to earn a million dollars with his work.
044 Arthur Conan Doyle, who invented Sherlock Holmes, was an occultist and believed in the existence of small winged fairies.
045 Jean-Paul Sartre experimented with mind-expanding substances and supported terrorists in every possible way. Perhaps the first was somehow connected with the second.
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1. One of the most extraordinary books is “ The Divine Comedy"Dante, created by G. Celani on one sheet of paper measuring 800x600 mm. It contained 14 thousand poems, and you can read them without special magnifying equipment. If you look at the book from a distance, you get a map of Italy. Monk Gabriel spent 4 years creating it.
2. The poet Oppian received the largest fee of the Roman Empire. Marcus Aurelius paid him a gold coin for each line of the poem. For his work he received 20 thousand gold coins.
3. To make books as cheap as cigarettes, Penguin began using paperbacks. The first such books were distributed in churches.
4. A bibliocleptomaniac is a person who steals books. Stephen Bloomberg, the most famous book thief, stole more than 23 thousand rare specimens books. Now his collection is worth about $20 million.
5. B medieval Europe To prevent it from being taken out of the public library, the book was chained to the shelf. Their length made it possible to remove books from shelves and read them, but not to take them with them. This method of protection against theft was used until the 18th century, since books were very expensive at that time.
6. According to Google estimates, there are almost 130 million book titles in the world (this includes all artistic, journalistic and scientific works).
7. A book by the famous Dutch doctor Herman Boerhaave entitled “The Only and Deepest Secrets of the Medical Art” was sold for 10 thousand dollars. When the seal on it was opened, it turned out that its pages were blank. Only title page read: “Keep your head cold, your feet warm, and you will make the best doctor poor.”
8. The well-known and familiar “bookworm” appeared thanks to small insects that eat the spines of books.
9. In Shakespeare’s works, the word “love” appears almost 10 times more often than the word “hate” (2259 and 229 times, respectively).
10. Leonardo da Vinci's work on water, earth and celestial bodies, called the Codex Leicester, is considered one of the most expensive books in the world. To become its owner, Bill Gates spent more than $30 million. The book itself should only be read with a mirror, as it is written in mirror handwriting.
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The famous phrase “We all came from Gogol's overcoat”, which is used to express the humanistic traditions of Russian literature. The authorship of this expression is often attributed to Dostoevsky, but in fact the first person to say it was the French critic Eugene Vogüe, who discussed the origins of Dostoevsky’s work. Fyodor Mikhailovich himself cited this quote in a conversation with another French writer, who understood it as the writer’s own words and published them in this light in his work. The first manuscript " Strange story Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" Stevenson was burned by his wife. Biographers have two versions of why she did this: some say that she considered such a plot unworthy of a writer, others say that she was unhappy with the incomplete disclosure of the topic of split personality. Nevertheless, Stevenson, suffering from tuberculosis, re-wrote this novella in three days, which became one of his most commercially successful works and allowed his family to get out of debt. 
The French writer Stendhal, after a visit to Florence in 1817, wrote: “When I left the Church of the Holy Cross, my heart began to beat, it seemed to me that the source of life had dried up, I walked, afraid of collapsing to the ground...” The masterpieces of art that excite the writer can have a similar effect on other people, causing rapid heartbeat and dizziness - this psychosomatic disorder is called Stendhal syndrome. The person who has “picked up” it experiences extremely heightened emotions from contemplating the paintings, as if transported into the space of the image. Often the feelings are so strong that people try to destroy works of art. In a broader sense, Stendhal syndrome can be caused by any observed beauty - for example, nature or women. There is a widely known legend about the medieval Swiss archer William Tell, who, for disobedience to the German governor, was forced to shoot at the apple on the head of his own son, and Tell did not miss. Inspired by this story, the American writer William Burroughs wanted to surprise the guests at one of the parties. He put a glass on the head of his wife Joan Vollmer and fired a pistol - the wife died from a hit in the head. 
His first book, Harry Potter and philosopher's Stone» JK Rowling graduated in 1995. The literary agent who agreed to represent her sent the manuscript to 12 publishing houses, but it was rejected by all of them. Only a year later, the manuscript was accepted by the small London publishing house Bloomsbury, although its editor-in-chief, even after approving the book, was sure that Rowling would not earn much from children's books, and advised her to find a permanent job. In the last years of his life, Ernest Hemingway became depressed and irritable, telling family and friends that FBI agents were following him everywhere. Several times the writer was treated in psychiatric clinic, from where he also called his friends, saying that there were bugs in the ward and their conversation was being listened to. Under the influence of electric shock, he lost the ability to write and formulate his thoughts as he could before. Finally, on July 2, 1961, Hemingway shot himself with a gun in his home. Several decades later, an official request was made to the FBI about the writer’s case, to which the answer came: surveillance and wiretapping took place, including in that mental hospital, since the authorities seemed suspicious of his activity in Cuba. 
The source of the plot for Gogol's play "The Inspector General" was real case in the city of Ustyuzhna, Novgorod province, and Pushkin told the author about this incident. It was Pushkin who advised Gogol to continue writing the work when he more than once wanted to give up this work. One day, Francois Rabelais did not have the money to get from Lyon to Paris. Then he prepared three bags with the inscriptions “Poison for the King”, “Poison for the Queen” and “Poison for the Dauphin” and left them in a visible place in the hotel room. Upon learning of this, the hotel owner immediately reported to the authorities. Rabelais was captured and convoyed to the capital directly to King Francis I so that he could decide the writer’s fate. It turned out that the packages contained sugar, which Rabelais immediately drank with a glass of water, and then told the king, with whom they were friends, how he solved his problem. 
Daria Dontsova, whose father was Soviet writer Arkady Vasiliev, grew up surrounded by the creative intelligentsia. Once at school she was asked to write an essay on the topic: “What was Valentin Petrovich Kataev thinking about when he wrote the story “The Lonely Sail Whitens”?”, and Dontsova asked Kataev himself to help her. As a result, Daria received a bad grade, and the literature teacher wrote in her notebook: “Kataev was not thinking about this at all!” 
The fairy tale "The Wise Man of Oz" American writer Frank Baum was not published in Russian until 1991. At the end of the 30s, Alexander Volkov, who was a mathematician by training and taught this science at one of the Moscow institutes, began to study English language and for practice I decided to translate this book in order to retell it to my children. They really liked it, they began to demand a continuation, and Volkov, in addition to the translation, began to come up with something of his own. This was the beginning of it literary path, which resulted in The Wizard emerald city"and many other tales about the Magic Land. 
Alexandre Dumas, when writing his works, used the services of many assistants - the so-called “literary blacks”. Among them, the most famous is Auguste Macquet, who, according to the writer's most famous biographer, Claude Schoppe, conceived the basis of the plot of The Count of Monte Cristo and made a significant contribution to " Three Musketeers" Although it should be noted that it was thanks to Dumas’ talent that his novels, even if they grew from the rough notes of his assistants, were saturated bright details and live dialogues. Alexandre Dumas once took part in a duel where the participants drew lots, and the loser had to shoot himself. The lot went to Dumas, who retired to the next room. A shot rang out, and then Dumas returned to the participants with the words: “I shot, but missed.” 
Some biographies of Erich Maria Remarque indicate that he real name- Kramer (Remarque in reverse). In fact, this is an invention of the Nazis, who, after his emigration from Germany, also spread the rumor that Remarque is the descendants of French Jews. 
Dostoevsky made extensive use of the real topography of St. Petersburg in describing the places in his novel Crime and Punishment. As the writer admitted, he compiled a description of the yard in which Raskolnikov hides the things he stole from the pawnbroker’s apartment from personal experience- when one day, while walking around the city, Dostoevsky turned into a deserted courtyard to relieve himself. 
In 1976, Swedish writer Astrid Lindgren's progressive income tax was 102%. The satirical article she wrote caused fierce controversy, which is believed to be the reason why members of the Swedish Social Democratic Party did not enter the government after the next elections for the first time in 40 years. 
After the outbreak of World War II, Marina Tsvetaeva was sent for evacuation to the city of Elabuga, in Tatarstan. Boris Pasternak helped her pack her things. He brought a rope to tie up the suitcase, and, assuring of its strength, joked: “The rope will withstand everything, even if you hang yourself.” Subsequently, he was told that it was on her that Tsvetaeva hanged herself in Yelabuga. 
The famous formula “Twice two equals five,” which George Orwell repeatedly emphasized in the dystopian novel “1984,” came to his mind when he heard the Soviet slogan “Five-Year Plan in Four Years!” The term “robot” was coined by the Czech writer Karel Capek. Although at first in his play he called humanoid mechanisms “laboratories” (from the Latin labor - work), he did not like this word. Then, on the advice of his brother Josef, he renamed them robots. By the way, in Czech, the word robota, the original word for this neologism, means not just work, but hard work or hard labor. Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, in correspondence with his wife Olga Leonardovna Knipper, used to her, in addition to standard compliments and affectionate words, very unusual ones: “actress”, “dog”, “snake” and - feel the lyricism of the moment - “the crocodile of my soul”. Having fallen ill, Chekhov sent a messenger to the pharmacy for castor oil capsules. The pharmacist sent him two large capsules, which Chekhov returned with the inscription “I am not a horse!” Having received the writer’s autograph, the pharmacist happily replaced them with normal capsules. 
When Alexandre Dumas wrote “The Three Musketeers” in serial format in one of the newspapers, the contract with the publisher stipulated line-by-line payment for the manuscript. To increase the fee, Dumas invented a servant of Athos named Grimaud, who spoke and answered all questions exclusively in monosyllables, in most cases “yes” or “no.” The continuation of the book, entitled “Twenty Years Later,” was paid by the word, and Grimaud became a little more talkative. Initially, on Gogol’s grave in the monastery cemetery there was a stone nicknamed Golgotha because of its resemblance to Mount Jerusalem. When they decided to destroy the cemetery, during reburial in another place they decided to install a bust of Gogol on the grave. And that same stone was subsequently placed on Bulgakov’s grave by his wife. In this regard, Bulgakov’s phrase, which he repeatedly addressed to Gogol during his lifetime, is noteworthy: “Teacher, cover me with your overcoat.” 
Alexander Griboyedov was not only a poet, but also a diplomat. In 1829, he died in Persia along with the entire diplomatic mission at the hands of religious fanatics. To atone for their guilt, the Persian delegation arrived in St. Petersburg with rich gifts, among which was the famous Shah diamond weighing 88.7 carats. 
James Barrie created the image of Peter Pan - the boy who will never grow up - for a reason. This hero became a dedication to the author’s older brother, who died the day before he turned 14 years old, and forever remained young in the memory of his mother. 
In 1835, Halley's comet flew near the Earth, and two weeks after its perihelion, Mark Twain was born. In 1909 he wrote: “I came into this world with a comet and I will leave with it too when it arrives in next year" And so it happened: Twain died on April 21, 1910, the day after the comet’s next perihelion. 
The term “bata-kusai” (translated as “smelling of oil”) is not milk drinkers The Japanese call everything foreign and pro-Western. Elderly Japanese used the same expression to describe the writer Haruki Murakami for his adherence to the Western way of life. 
Lewis Carroll loved to communicate and be friends with little girls, but was not a pedophile, as many of his biographers claim. Often his girlfriends underestimated their age, or he himself called older ladies girls. The reason was that the morality of that era in England strictly condemned communication with a young woman alone, and girls under 14 were considered asexual, and friendship with them was completely innocent. The French writer and humorist Alphonse Allais, a quarter of a century before Kazimir Malevich, painted a black square - a painting called “Battle of the Negroes in a Cave” late at night" He also anticipated John Cage's minimalist musical piece of only silence "4'33" by almost seventy years with his similar work "Funeral March for the Funeral of the Great Deaf Man." 
Leo Tolstoy was skeptical about his novels, including War and Peace. In 1871, he sent Fet a letter: “How happy I am... that I will never write verbose rubbish like “War” again.” An entry in his diary in 1908 reads: “People love me for those trifles - “War and Peace”, etc., which seem very important to them.” 
The expression “Balzac age” arose after the publication of Balzac’s novel “A Thirty-Year-Old Woman” and is acceptable for women no older than 40 years. 
French writer Guy de Maupassant was one of those who was irritated by the Eiffel Tower. However, he dined at her restaurant every day, explaining that here the only place in Paris, from where you can't see the tower. The American extravagant writer Timothy Dexter wrote a book in 1802 with very peculiar language and the absence of any punctuation. In response to reader outcry, in the second edition of the book he added a special page with punctuation marks, asking readers to arrange them in the text to their liking. 
Franz Kafka published only a few short stories during his lifetime. Being seriously ill, he asked his friend Max Brod to burn all his works after his death, including several unfinished novels. Brod did not fulfill this request, but, on the contrary, ensured the publication of the works that brought Kafka worldwide fame. 
Shakespeare's hero had real prototype Italian Maurizio Othello. He commanded the Venetian forces in Cyprus and lost his wife there under extremely suspicious circumstances. The diminutive name Mauro in Italian also means “Moor,” which led to Shakespeare’s mistake in assigning such a nationality to the hero. 
Winnie the Pooh got the first part of his name from one of the real toys of Christopher Robin, the son of the writer Milne. The toy was named after a female bear at the London Zoo named Winnipeg, who came there from Canada. The second part - Pooh - was borrowed from the name of the swan of acquaintances of the Milne family. In 1925 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Bernard Shaw, who called the event "a token of gratitude for the relief he has given the world by not publishing anything this year."
Poets and writers for some - crazy geniuses, for others - they do not represent anything special, but only become annoying in schools with their poems, stories and biographies. But some people don’t even realize how interesting many personalities are beyond their creativity. What about the most unusual and unknown interesting facts about writers and poets?
A.S. Pushkin is “our everything,” I hope everyone remembers this. The line “let’s drink from grief” immediately comes to mind; where is the mug? - these words are partly true, although the most favorite drink was sweet lemonade!
In the process of creating the work, the writer refreshed himself not with a cup of coffee or a glass of wine, but with a glass of lemonade, the poet especially loved it at night.
Surprisingly, before the duel with Dantes, Pushkin went into a pastry shop and drank a glass of aromatic lemonade with great pleasure.
Gogol's eccentricities
Oh, how many myths there are around the author of the famous “Evenings on a Farm near Dikanka”. Contemporaries confirmed some of the writer’s oddities. Gogol slept sitting, loved to do needlework (sewed scarves and vests), wrote all his brilliant works only while standing!
For example, as a child I loved to roll bread balls, for which I usually got slapped on the wrist. And Gogol calmed his nerves by rolling balls all his life! Nikolai Berg, remembering the writer, said that Gogol constantly walked from corner to corner or wrote, while at the same time rolling balls of bread (precisely wheat). And the writer also threw rolled balls into kvass for his friends!
The Amazing Habits of Chekhov
But Chekhov, calming his nerves, did not roll balls, but smashed crushed stone with a hammer into dust, which was then used to sprinkle garden paths. The writer could spend hours, without distraction, breaking rubble!
Deep psychologist Dostoevsky
By the way, the characters of all the characters in Dostoevsky’s works were copied from real people. Dostoevsky constantly made new acquaintances, starting conversations even with random passers-by.
Contemporaries note that when the writer was immersed in writing works, he became so carried away that he forgot to eat. He walked around the room all day, saying sentences out loud. One day while writing famous novel Dostoevsky wandered from corner to corner and talked to himself about Raskolnikov’s attitude towards the old pawnbroker and his motive. The footman got scared when he accidentally overheard the conversation and decided that Dostoevsky was going to kill someone.
Religious philosopher Leo Tolstoy
Here you can make a huge list of the eccentricities and oddities of the author of Anna Karenina, War and Peace and much, much more.
Firstly, as an 82-year-old man, he ran away from his wonderful wife, who could spend hours copying his works into clear copy. And all because of a discrepancy in views, which emerged only after 48 years of marriage.
Secondly, Leo Tolstoy was a vegetarian. Thirdly, the writer lost the family estate at cards. Fourth, Leo Tolstoy denied everything material goods, constantly communicated with peasants and valued physical labor. The writer said about himself that if he doesn’t work at least a little in the yard a day, he will be very irritable. He also loved to do handicrafts, especially sewing boots for relatives, friends and even strangers.
Vladimir Nabokov and his butterflies
Entomology was a huge passion for Nabokov; he could spend hours running around the area looking for beautiful butterflies.
One of the funniest photographs of Nabokov with a butterfly net. But anyway main love For Nabokov, the craft of writing remained. The author's principle of writing texts is interesting. The works were written on 3 by 5 inch cards, which were then used to create a book. The cards had to have pointed ends straight lines
and an elastic band.
Mystical letters of Evgeny Petrov (Kataev) The main hobby of the co-author satirical works “Twelve Chairs”, “Golden Calf”, etc. there was collecting stamps, but even here it’s not so simple. Petrov sent letters to invented addresses to cities that did not exist on the world map. First he chose real country
, and then fantasized about what city was missing there, who would live there, etc. You may ask: why did he do this? After long travels around the world, the letter was returned, crowned with numerous stamps marked “Addressee not found.” But one day Petrov received a response from New Zealand; everything matched: the address, the name, and even the situation described by the domestic writer. Petrov wrote in a letter that he condoled the death of a certain Uncle Pete, and asked how his wife and daughter were doing. The addressee replied that he missed Petrov, remembered the days spent with him in New Zealand, his wife and daughter also said hello and hoped to see him soon. One would think that someone was making a joke, but the interlocutor attached a photo that showed big man
, hugging Petrov!
- http://WriterVall.ru/interesnye-fakty-o-pisatelyah-i-poetah/ It's interesting that two writers end XVIII-beginning
- XIX centuries Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin and Nikolai Mikhailovich Karamzin descend from people from the Mongol-Tatar Horde. The ancestor of the first was a certain Bagrim-Murza, who left for Moscow from the Great Horde and, after baptism, entered the service of Grand Duke Vasily Vasilyevich. The ancestor of the second was the Tatar Murza Kara-Murza.
- A. S. Pushkin’s maternal ancestor was a black man, a native of Africa, “Peter the Great’s Blackamoor” - Abram Petrovich Hannibal.
- A crater on Mercury is named in honor of Gabriel Romanovich Derzhavin.
- It was Lomonosov who introduced into science a number of Russian words that had everyday meaning, such as experience, phenomenon, movement, particle.
- Karamzin enriched the language with tracing words, such as “falling in love”, “impression” and “influence”, “touching” and “entertaining”. It was he who introduced into use the words “industry”, “concentrate”, “aesthetic”, “moral”, “era”, “scene”, “harmony”, “catastrophe”, “future”. According to , this glorious historian and writer “freed the language from the alien yoke and returned it to freedom, turning it to the living sources of the people’s word.”
- Konstantin Nikolaevich Batyushkov worked a lot on processing his native poetic speech. He gave the Russian poetic language such harmony, flexibility, elasticity, which Russian poetry had never known before. According to Belinsky, the perfection of Pushkin's verse and the wealth of poetic turns and expressions were largely prepared by the works of Zhukovsky and.
- Pushkin called Batyushkov “a happy associate of Lomonosov, who did for the Russian language the same thing that Petrarch did for Italian.”
- Heavy mental illness Batyushkova, where he lived for almost 35 recent years his life away from everyone who knew him before was the reason that history began for him alive. They began to judge him long before his death as a dead man, a figure of the past; without his knowledge, his collected works were reprinted twice. He did not know that criticism placed him among the Russian classical writers, the immediate predecessors of Pushkin. He died of typhus on July 7, 1855. He was buried in the Spaso-Prilutsky Monastery, five miles from Vologda.
- The creator of modern literary language Alexander Pushkin is considered, whose works are considered the pinnacle of Russian literature.
- Leo Tolstoy was the first to renounce copyright, was excommunicated from the church for not recognizing religious authorities, and was an opponent of the state system.
- Being versatile talented person, Lermontov, in addition literary creativity was good artist and loved mathematics. Elements of higher mathematics, the beginnings of differential and integral calculus, and analytical geometry fascinated Lermontov throughout his life. He always carried a math textbook with him French author Bezu
