Biography of Nfanasyev

Please evaluate Afanasyev Alexander Nikolaevich is famous in the world as a Russian storyteller. But this person was also a historian, literary critic, researcher of folklore, whose work has not yet been fully published. He is put on a par with the famous philologists and linguists of the world, such as the Brothers Grimm, Charles Perrault and others. Afanasyev was born in the year in the Voronezh province, in the small city of Boguchar.

When the boy’s grandfather died, the family moved to the neighboring city of beavers, and settled on the estate, where there was a good library. Little Alexander became interested in reading, he liked to read historical books, during this period he had awakened a lively interest in history and culture. In the year, the next folklorist entered the Voronezh gymnasium, the training in which lasted seven years.

The gymnasium was dominated by gross measures of education, bodily punishment took place, and teachers forced the children to dance objects. The general atmosphere of ill -wishes in the team could even kill Afanasyev’s high aspirations, but still he found the strength to study there. At the end of the institution at the age of eighteen years, the young man left for Moscow.

In Moscow, he entered the Moscow University, where he studied for 4 years for a lawyer, with G. during his studies at the legal faculty, he began to study with such scientists as N. Krylov, K. Cavelin and others. In the university years, he posted in the magazine “Contemporary” his first publication “State Economy under Peter the Great”, Belinsky approving her approving, indicating her scientific aspects.

Afanasyev was predicted by the career of the professor, but one case did not allow this to be realized. In the year, the Minister of Education arrived at the university - Count S. Uvarov, the purpose of his visit was to determine the public moods of the professorship, in connection with the events in Western Europe, for this he attended lectures. Some of the lectures, a trial nature, were read by students themselves, including Afanasyev.

His lecture on how the autocratic power affected criminal law for centuries, the minister did not like. At the same time, the student allowed himself to disagree with the remarks of Uvarov, and began to defend his point of view. After what happened at the end of Moscow University, the young man could not find a job among state education institutions and was forced to work in a private school.

In the year, with the support of N. Kalachev, Afanasyev entered the service in the main archive at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Moscow, where he worked for 13 years. During this time, he went through an increase in the service: from the year he bossed in the department, and after some time became the ruler of the commission of the commission under the archive, which oversaw the printing of contracts and letters at the state level.

In this position, he stayed up to a year. Working in the archive, the scientist was happy, he was able to reveal creatively. During these years, Afanasyev created part of his many works, articles were published in magazines such as a “contemporary”, and in specialized scientific collections, but many work suffered the “fatal effect of censorship”, as Afanasyev wrote in the himself.

In the fifties, he worked in the field of the history of Russian literature. These are articles about the Russian satire of the 18th century, and notes on the literature of Russia of the 19th century. In - G. But fairy tales and legends remained the priority occupation of Afanasyev, thanks to this, he became popular and became famous throughout the cultural world. Compared to scientific work, which has now lost its significance, the collections of Russian creativity created by him are the pride of the nation in today's days.

The construction of folklore to primitive myths was the method of many folklorists. It was also used by Afanasyev, such articles as “Grandfather Brownie”, “Wesan and Witch”, etc., and other publications, as well as other works, became the basis of the solid three -volume “Poetic views of the Slavs to nature” G. In the period in the year he was able to go abroad and visit countries such as Italy, Germany, France.

In the year, the scientist and folklorist was deprived of the service in the archive. In an insignificant circumstance - Afanasyev’s meeting with Emigrant V. Kelsiev - a search was made in the GO house. Then followed the dismissal and the ban on holding positions in the civil service. After that, Afanasyev could not find constant earnings, the financial situation worsened. Therefore, he began to sell his library.

In the year, he worked as an official in the Moscow Duma, in the year he was a secretary at the congress of peace. His health was weak, he was sick with tuberculosis. But before his death in the year, he managed to publish a special collection for children - "Russian children's fairy tales." This meeting was composed precisely for reading the house. The publishing house of this book was the last moment that was comforted by Afanasyev.

In the city of the death of this great storyteller, it was almost not illuminated in print publications. The second collection of fairy tales came out after his death. From that time, this collection is one of the most beloved and popular works, and the name of A. Afanasyev is always mentioned with veneration. Popular fairy tales:.