Melnikov is a brief biography

His whole life was connected with the Nizhny Novgorod province.

The childhood of Melnikov took mainly in the city of Semenov, where his father was elected zemstvo assessor. The future writer grew among people from the people, listened to the ranks of folk speech, observed local customs and customs. A rich home library contributed to his early hobby for history and literature. In the year, Melnikov entered the Nizhny Novgorod gymnasium, after which in the year - to the verbal department of Kazan University.

In the year he was aimed at serving in the Perm gymnasium. He traveled a lot on the Urals, studied the life and customs of the population. The result of these trips was a number of articles published in “domestic notes”, which laid the foundation for his historical and ethnographic works. In the year, Melnikov moves to Nizhny Novgorod, serves in the gymnasium. In the city of Melnikov, he dismantled the archives of the present places and monasteries of the Nizhny Novgorod province, studied the genealogy of Minin.

His article “Nizhny Novgorod and Nizhny Novgorod in the Time of Troubles” was approved by V. In the year, the Nizhny Novgorod Governor Urusov instructs Melnikov editing the unofficial part of the “Nizhny Novgorod provincial statements”. Melnikov attracts Nizhny Novgorod people interested in the history of the region to cooperation in the newspaper. It is here that Archimandrite Macarius Mirolyubov publishes his works about Russian antiquities.

In the year, Melnikov becomes a member of the Russian Geographical Society, performs the duties of the Secretary of the Provincial Statistical Committee. Based on research materials, he writes numerous articles about Nizhny Novgorod and different counties of the Nizhny Novgorod province. The service career of P. Melnikov was very successful. In the year, he finally leaves teaching in the gymnasium, is determined as an official of special instructions under the Nizhny Novgorod military governor.

In the year, Melnikov becomes an official of special instructions of the Ministry of the Interior, in - gg. Melnikov was a convinced opponent of the split, the execution of the decree on the destruction of the Kerzhensky and Chernomomensky monastery fell to his lot. At the same time, he saw that the ideas of the split were deeply rooted in folk life, many positive features of the Russian national character were developed precisely in the schismatic environment.

Starting from the second half of the 50s, Melnikov consistently advocated mitigating measures in relation to schismatics. In the writer's fate of P. Melnikov, V. their relationship began in the year and were interrupted only by the death of Dahl. He praised the literary talent of Melnikov and he came up with the pseudonym Andrei Pechersky. For the first time with this pseudonym, the author signed the article “Concerts at the Nizhny Novgorod Theater”, published in the “Nizhny Novgorod Provincial Gazette” in the year.

Since the year, Melnikov has served in St. Petersburg, from the year in Moscow. All these years, his life has been associated with literary activity. He writes a number of works on Russian and general history, numerous articles on the history of the church schism. With the departure from the lower activity of P. Melnikov in the territory of the Nizhny Novgorod province, it did not stop.

He explores the state of affairs at the Nizhny Novgorod Fair, visits the northern and eastern regions of the province in order to study their ethnography and natural conditions. He invariably spends the summer months in the country in Gorbatovsky district. The peak of literary work of the writer, the main work of his life was the novel dilogy “in the forests” and “on the mountains”, in which the life of the surrounds and highlands in the middle of the 19th century, the life of the Old Believer merchants, the customs of the local population, and the schismatic monastery are widely represented.

Here, the talent of P. Melnikov - the narrator and the householder, his knowledge in the history of the schism and sectarianism, in ethnography and folklore was most fully manifested. The novel "In the Forests" was started in the year. He went out in a separate book and was perceived by the reading public as an outstanding historical and lititural phenomenon.

The second part of the dilogy - the novel “On the Mountains” - was almost entirely written in the estate of Lyakhovo Gorbatovsky district. In the year, Melnikov, Pechersky, already being seriously ill, is forever returning to Nizhny Novgorod. In the year, he died and was buried in the Crusader Monastery. Sources of Sokolov V. Melnikov Andrei Pechersky: Essay on Life and Creativity.

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