Pyotr Boborykin

Pyotr Dmitrievich Boborykin (Russian Пётр Дмитриевич Боборыкин, scientific transliteration Petr Dmitrievič Boborykin; * Augustjul 15 / 27 August 1836greg in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia;. . † August 12, 1921 in Lugano, Switzerland ) was a Russian writer.

Life

Boborykin studied at the law faculty of Kazan University and at the Faculty of Physics and Mathematics of the University of Dorpat. His extensive body of work, which includes the dramas, novels, short stories and critical essays, provides a picture of the intellectual and social changes of the mid-19th century to the 20th century, especially in the layer of the Russian intelligentsia. His literary career began in the 60s of the 19th century. In an article under the title of beauty, life and creativity, which appeared in 1893, he criticized the aesthetic views of Chernyshevsky. Translated German appeared, among others, the novels Occidental victims (1868, German 1893) and Kitai -Gorod (1882, German 1895). In 1902 Boborykin was elected an honorary member of the Russian Academy. In 1914 he emigrated and died on 12 August 1921 in Switzerland.