Mikhail Albov
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Mikhail Nilovich Albov was a Russian writer.
and David Copperfield
. Nikolay Gogol's novel Dead Souls
also made a deep impression on him. At the age of thirteen Albov's story The Memoirs of an Underground Lodger was published by the Peterburgsky Listok (St Petersburg News). After this success, he left school to focus on his literary efforts.
His first novel On the New Road appeared in 1866 and attracted general attention. In 1873 he returned to school and soon finished. He then studied at Saint Petersburg State University
, where he graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1879. Upon graduating, he took a civil service post, but resigned it a few months later. In the 1890s he was the editor of the popular magazine The Northern Herald
. He died in St Petersburg in 1911.
Biography
Albov was born in St Petersburg in 1851. From an early age he showed a love for reading. He was especially interested in foreign works such as Robinson CrusoeRobinson Crusoe
Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and...
and David Copperfield
David Copperfield (novel)
The Personal History, Adventures, Experience and Observation of David Copperfield the Younger of Blunderstone Rookery , commonly referred to as David Copperfield, is the eighth novel by Charles Dickens, first published as a novel in 1850. Like most of his works, it originally appeared in serial...
. Nikolay Gogol's novel Dead Souls
Dead Souls
Dead Souls is a novel by Nikolai Gogol, first published in 1842, and widely regarded as an exemplar of 19th-century Russian literature. Gogol himself saw it as an "epic poem in prose", and within the book as a "novel in verse". Despite supposedly completing the trilogy's second part, Gogol...
also made a deep impression on him. At the age of thirteen Albov's story The Memoirs of an Underground Lodger was published by the Peterburgsky Listok (St Petersburg News). After this success, he left school to focus on his literary efforts.
His first novel On the New Road appeared in 1866 and attracted general attention. In 1873 he returned to school and soon finished. He then studied at Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University
Saint Petersburg State University is a Russian federal state-owned higher education institution based in Saint Petersburg and one of the oldest and largest universities in Russia....
, where he graduated from the Faculty of Law in 1879. Upon graduating, he took a civil service post, but resigned it a few months later. In the 1890s he was the editor of the popular magazine The Northern Herald
Severny Vestnik
Severny Vestnik was an influential Russian literary magazine founded in Saint Petersburg in 1885 by Anna Yevreinova, who stayed with it until 1889.-History:...
. He died in St Petersburg in 1911.