Sreda (literary group)
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The Moscow Literary Sreda was a Moscow literary group founded in 1899 by Nikolay Teleshov
. The name Sreda means Wednesday, taken from the day of the week on which writers and other artists met at Teleshov's home. The last meeting of the Sreda took place in 1916.
Nikolay Teleshov
Nikolay Dmitryevich Teleshov , , was a Russian/Soviet writer.-Biography:Teleshov was born in Moscow where his father was a merchant. His poems were first published in 1884. In the 1880s and 1890s he wrote short stories and novellas, including the story he's best known for, The Duel...
. The name Sreda means Wednesday, taken from the day of the week on which writers and other artists met at Teleshov's home. The last meeting of the Sreda took place in 1916.
List of Sreda members
- Leonid AndreyevLeonid AndreyevLeonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history...
- Pyotr BoborykinPyotr Boborykin-Biography:Boborykin was born into the family of a landowner. He studied at Kazan State University and the Dorpat University, but he never completed his education. He made his debut as a playwright in 1860. In 1863-1864 he published an autobiographical novel, The Pathway...
- Ivan Bunin
- Fyodor Chaliapin
- Anton ChekhovAnton ChekhovAnton Pavlovich Chekhov was a Russian physician, dramatist and author who is considered to be among the greatest writers of short stories in history. His career as a dramatist produced four classics and his best short stories are held in high esteem by writers and critics...
(Visitor) - Evgeny Chirikov
- Sergey ElpatyevskySergey ElpatyevskySergey Yakovlovich Elpatyevsky , November 3, 1854 – January 9, 1933, was a Russian writer and doctor.-Early life:Elpatyevsky was born in the village of Novoselki-Kudrino, Vladimir Province, into the family of a village priest. He studied at a religious school, and, after graduating in 1868,...
- Nikolai Garin-MikhailovskyNikolai Garin-MikhailovskyNikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky Nikolai Georgievich Garin-Mikhailovsky (Russian: Никола́й Гео́ргиевич Га́рин-Михайло́вский, was a Russian writer and essayist, locating engineer and railroad constructor....
(Visitor) - Maxim GorkyMaxim GorkyAlexei Maximovich Peshkov , primarily known as Maxim Gorky , was a Russian and Soviet author, a founder of the Socialist Realism literary method and a political activist.-Early years:...
- Sergey Gusev-OrenburgskySergey Gusev-OrenburgskySergey Ivanovich Gusev-Orenburgsky was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Biography:...
- Aleksandr KuprinAleksandr KuprinAleksandr Ivanovich Kuprin , was a Russian writer, pilot, explorer and adventurer who is perhaps best known for his story The Duel . Other well-known works include Moloch , Olesya , Junior Captain Rybnikov , Emerald , and The Garnet Bracelet...
- Vladimir KorolenkoVladimir KorolenkoVladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a Ukrainian-Russian short story writer, journalist, human rights activist and humanitarian. His short stories were known for their harsh description of nature based on his experience of exile in Siberia...
(Visitor) - Isaac LevitanIsaac LevitanIsaac Ilyich Levitan was a classical Russian landscape painter who advanced the genre of the "mood landscape".-Youth:...
- Dmitry Mamin-Sibiryak
- Sergey Terentyevich SemyonovSergey Terentyevich SemyonovSergey Terentyevich Semyonov , born March 28, 1868 – died December 3, 1922, was a Russian writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Biography:...
- Alexander SerafimovichAlexander SerafimovichAlexander Serafimovich was a Russian/Soviet writer and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda.-Early life:...
- Ivan ShmelyovIvan ShmelyovIvan Sergeyevich Shmelyov was a Russian émigré writer best known for his full-blooded idyllic recreations of the pre-revolutionary past spent in the merchant district of Moscow...
- Stepan SkitaletsStepan SkitaletsStepan Skitalets , , was the pen-name of Stepan Gavrilovich Petrov, a Russian/Soviet poet, writer of fiction and folk musician. The name Skitalets means "wanderer" in Russian.- Early life :...
- Fyodor SologubFyodor SologubFyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist. He was the first writer to introduce the morbid, pessimistic elements characteristic of European fin de siècle literature and philosophy into Russian prose.-Early life:...
(Visitor) - Nikolay TeleshovNikolay TeleshovNikolay Dmitryevich Teleshov , , was a Russian/Soviet writer.-Biography:Teleshov was born in Moscow where his father was a merchant. His poems were first published in 1884. In the 1880s and 1890s he wrote short stories and novellas, including the story he's best known for, The Duel...
- Viktor VasnetsovViktor VasnetsovViktor Mikhaylovich Vasnetsov , 1848 — Moscow, July 23, 1926) was a Russian artist who specialized in mythological and historical subjects. He was described as co-founder of folklorist/romantic modernism in the Russian painting and a key figure of the revivalist movement in Russian art.- Childhood ...
- Vikenty Veresaev
- Semyon YushkevichSemyon YushkevichSemyon Solomonovich Yushkevich ,, was a Russian language writer, and playwright and a member of the Moscow literary group Sreda...
- Boris Zaytsev
- Nikolay ZlatovratskyNikolay ZlatovratskyNikolay Nikolayevich Zlatovratsky , born December 26, 1845 – died December 23, 1911, was a Russian writer.-Biography:Zlatovratsky was born in Vladimir, where his father was a minor government official. His father set up a library for local people, and it was here that Zlatovratsky first...