Modern Languages and Literatures, Department of
Date of this Version
September 1998
Abstract
Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko is well known not only as a publicist and a humanitarian, but also as a writer. His voluminous publicistic writing, based on his service to the people, championed truth and justice. It ranges from exposing activities of the local gentry in their manipulation of the city’s bank, court, and local zemstvo, to condemning the revolutionaries openly, after they took over power, for not complying with the law and for forcing changes too rapidly. As a writer of fiction, Korolenko’s contribution to Russian narrative prose is in the form of short stories.
Comments
Published in Reference Guide to Russian Literature, Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers (1998), pp. 465-466. Copyright © 1998 Fitzroy Dearborn Publishers, Division of Springer-Verlag. Used by permission.