Vyacheslav Shishkov

Wjatschelaw Yakovlevich Shishkov (Russian Вячеслав Яковлевич Шишков; * 21 Septemberjul / October 3 1873greg in Beschezk, Tver Oblast, .. † March 6, 1945 in Moscow), son of a merchant, was a Russian- Soviet writer.

Shishkov spent 20 years ( 1894-1915 ) as an engineer in the area of ​​management of Transportation Tomsk ( Siberia). This he learned vast areas of Siberia to the water and get to land: the Yenisei, Ob, the Lena, Pinega, Vychegda, Northern Dvina, Sukhona, Angara and Bija ( Altai ). His month-long expeditions from spring to autumn, were not without danger: once his expedition came to not only by the fact that she met on the Lower Tunguska with Tungusic nomads. The lives of ordinary people in Siberia flowed in his sketches and stories: small farmers, prospectors, nomads, political exiles, Cossacks from the Irtysh, Kyrgyz and Yakuts.

The first stories were published in 1908 in Siberian magazines. In 1911, he sent two of his stories Gorky. Through its participation, they appeared in the new journal of the neo-realists Sawety ( Заветы, German: legacies ). Shishkov befriended with Ivanov - Rasumnikow, Remizov, Prishvin, Miroljubow and Averyanov and learned through them support. With Gorky he met only in the winter of 1914 together for the first time.

1913-1914 led Shishkov a large expedition to the Altai, the route was built from 1903 to 1913 in western Mongolia ( Tschuiski tract / Чуйский тракт ) for damage and verify their correction. 1915 moved to St. Petersburg Shishkov.

The main work Schischkows about the Pugachev peasant leaders remained unfinished due to a serious illness.

Works

• На Лене. 1910 ( German: On the Lena)
• Сибирский сказ. 1916 ( German: A Siberian tale )
• Угрюм - река. 1933 (1949 German: The dark current)
• Емельян Пугачев. 1935 - 1949, 3 volumes, unfinished ( German: Yemelian Pugachev )