Senkevich writer biography

Heinrik Senkevich - Biography, News, Personal Life Age: From the day of birth, Death's age: 70 years old Genrik Senkevich Polsk. Polish writer, Nobel laureate of the year. He was a corresponding member since December and an honorary academician since November of the year of the Imperial St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences for the separation of the Russian language and literature.

Came from an impoverished gentry. The writer’s father came from the Tatars who settled on the territory of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania during the reign of Vitovt, i.e. the mother was from the Belarusian gentry family. He graduated from a gymnasium in Warsaw and studied at medical and historical and philological faculties in the main school since the year - Warsaw University.

Since the year - the permanent feuilletonist of the "Polish newspapers" "Gazeta Polska". In the year he married Maria Shetkevich, who died of tuberculosis in the year, two children were left. In the year, an anonymous fan granted him 15 thousand rubles, for which Senkevich created the Fund named after his late wife, who paid scholarships to patients with tuberculosis, cultural figures were used by the scholarships of the fund, in particular, Maria Konopnitskaya, Stanislav Zavyansky, Kazimezh Tetmayer.

The second marriage with Maria Volodkovich from Odessa ended with a divorce at the initiative of his wife in the year married Maria Babskaya. Having visited the United States, he published “letters from the trip” upon returning to Europe for some time lived in Paris, he was in Lviv in the year, then visited Venice and Rome. In the year, in connection with the flight of literary activity, Senkevich was presented with the estate of the hirerrhass in Gmin Stravchin in Keletsky's dressing, the funds acquired by the public subsequently collected by the public.

With the outbreak of World War I, he went to Switzerland. He headed the Committee for Assistance to the Victims of War in Poland. After his death in Veva, the ashes were originally buried in the local Catholic Church, he was transferred to Warsaw in the year and buried in the crypt of the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist. In the early stories and stories there is an interest in three topics: the extinction of the patriarchal life “Old Servant”,; “Ganya”, the fate of the peasantry “Coal Sketches”,; The Yanko-Mushroom, etc.

The writer's early works characterize him as a positivist, but unlike other Polish positivists, he was also a conservative. His "Latarnik" "lantern on the lighthouse is considered one of the best stories in Polish literature. The author of the historical trilogy “Fire and Sword”, “Flood”, “Pan Volodyevsky” all these novels were met with readers with enthusiasm, and today they are considered the classic of Polish literature.

In the first novel, the struggle of the gentry of the Polish -Lithuanian with the Cossacks of Khmelnitsky is displayed. In the second part of the trilogy, a picture of the liberation war of the Poles with the Swedish intervention of the years is recreated. In the third novel, the exploits of the Polish knights are poetized during the Turkish invasion of the trilogy contained elements of the historical novel with the unique style of Senkevich.

After the publication in the Russian Empire, critics were ambiguously reacted to this novel, and the censors warned him of responsibility. The psychological novel “Without Dogmat” depicts the type of decadent-aristocrat. In it, Senkevich experiments with introspection, choosing the form of a diary for the novel, and the novel itself, at the same time, contains naturalistic features.

In the novel "The Family of the Polanetsky" with the idealization of the dealer from the gentry contrasts the satirical image of a social society. In the “Quo vadis” novel in some Russian translations of “Kamo Matysh”, the struggle of Nero against Christians is depicted. Thus, a parallel of the struggle of early Christians against Nero with the struggle of the Pole for Independence is carried out.

The victory of Christian spirituality over the materialism of Rome is a criticism of materialism and decline, as well as the allegory of the rise of the spirit in Poland. The novel tells about the victory of the Pole over the Germans. The immigrant novel is political connotation, since at that time there is an attempt to Germanize the Polish society.

The book has become mandatory for reading in Polish schools after Poland gained independence. The novel “Omut” concerns the events of the Russian Revolution in the years wrote an adventure story for children “In the wilds of Africa”. The novel about the participation of the Poles in the Napoleonic wars "Legons" remained unfinished. During life, he became one of the most famous and popular Polish writers in Poland and abroad.

After the trilogy, “Fire and Sword”, “Flood”, “Pan Volodyyovsky” became a Polish writer with the highest earnings for the right to publicize the trilogy for 20 years from the publisher 70 thousand rubles. Creativity played a large role in the history of Polish culture and received worldwide recognition of the Nobel Prize in Literature, "for outstanding merits in the field of epic." The novel "Quo Vadis" has been translated into more than forty languages.

The novel “Without Dogmat” was highly appreciated by L. Tolstoy, N. Leskov, A. Chekhov, Maxim Gorky and other Russian writers. Most of Senkevich’s novels are filmed. Ogniem I Mieczem - 2. Potop - 3. Legiony -