20 of the most popular authors in 1913
Books / / December 19, 2019
These writers were read at the beginning of the XX century. On many of them, you probably will not hear anything.
A resident of Krasnoyarsk Julia Solonet found the report library Siberian Railway in Tomsk and published on the Facebook page the list of authors who are most loved in the beginning of the XX century. Next to each name - the number of volumes that have library visitors in 1913.
1. Leo Tolstoy - 1689 volumes
In the first place - the storm Russian schoolchildren. This is not surprising. Tolstoy read out so far.
Buy "Kreutzer Sonata» →
2. Alexander Amphitheater - 1086 volumes
Hardly anyone now without the "Wikipedia" to say that he wrote an amphitheater. And he wrote a lot: about 30 novels, numerous short stories and journalistic works. Why not read it now, in principle, is clear: the novels "Victoria Pavlovna" and "daughter Victoria Pavlovna 'contemporaries were interesting, but now very different characters.
Download "In a country of love» →
3. Anastasia Verbitskaya - 1015 volumes
Author mega novels about women and their role in society and the fate of heavy, of course. Her works still the height of fashion criticism, and they became simply not needed after the revolution.
Buy «Zeitgeist» →
4. Vasily Nemirovich-Danchenko - 911 volumes
A prolific author, traveler and a correspondent who has written extensively about his travels and military events.
Buy "Skobeleva» →
5. Fyodor Dostoevsky - 902 volumes
Dostoevsky behind the thick, but entered the top five most popular writers beginning of XX century. It's time to think about it and read something beyond the mandatory program.
Buy "Teen» →
6. Anton Chekhov - 829 volumes
One of the most popular and well-known Russian writers, which is very appreciated in the whole world. It is useful to read and reread.
Download "House number 6» →
7. Ivan butcher (Baryshev) - 790 volumes
Satirist, author of short stories and comic plays that entertained his contemporaries, but quickly fell out of fashion, and erased from memory.
8. Ignatius Potapenko - 776 volumes
I wrote a lot and was incredibly popular with the general public, but did not leave the works that would read in 100 years.
Download "Notes old student» →
9. Henryk Sienkiewicz - 753 volumes
Polish writer who became famous for large-scale historical novels. They are read so far and even filmed.
Buy "Fire and Sword» →
10. Vsevolod Soloviev - 731 is
Vsevolod Soloviev wrote many historical novels about Russia. But studying the great creativity of his brother, the philosopher Vladimir Solovyov.
Download "Magi» →
11. Eugene Salias - 696 volumes
He wrote adventure novels about kings and the powers that be in the historical scenery. It was incredibly popular, but completely forgotten.
Download "maid of honor to the Empress» →
12. Dmitry Mamin-Siberian - 670 volumes
Now only read his essays on the nature and fairy tales for children, and works for adults about how life has changed after the revolution, forgotten.
Buy "Alonushkiny tales» →
13. Maxim Gorky - 590 volumes
Gorky was one of those new writers who ousted Amfiteatrov and Potapenko from the shelves of bookstores and from the memory of readers.
Download "The Lower Depths» →
14. Ivan Turgenev - 559 volumes
Read Turgenev mostly in school. Turgenev's girls will remember the rest of his life. Do you remember, he wrote, what else?
Buy "Small Works» →
15. Nikolai Leikin - 552 volumes
Humorist and satirist, his books many times reprinted before the revolution, and even prohibited to transfer. But humor is the test of time has not passed.
Buy "Our abroad» →
16. Leonid Andreev - 551 is
Fashionable and mysterious author who wrote the works "is not for everyone."
Download "Judas Iscariot» →
17. Ivan Goncharov - 498 volumes
After graduation read Russian classics more interesting than in literature classes. Fair. Especially that Goncharov wrote not only about the difficult relationship between the nobility.
Buy "frigate" Pallada »→
18. Casimir Barantsevich - 409 volumes
I am describing mainly the lives of ordinary people and was considered one of the most pessimistic authors.
Download "Brave rat» →
19. Olga Shapir - 408 volumes
Writing for women about women, family and love, and at the same time participate in public life and was an active feminist. Completely forgotten.
20. Alexander Ostrovsky - 371 is
It is believed that the play better look. Especially that Ostrovsky actively put so far. But reading does not impose a director's point of view on the product.
Buy "Snow White» →