Gleb Uspensky [SEP] place of birth
Gleb Uspensky
Gleb Ivanovich Uspensky (; October 25, 1843 – April 6, 1902), was a Russian writer, and a prominent figure of the Narodnik movement.
Biography.
Biography Early life.
Gleb Uspensky was born in Tula, the son of Ivan Yakovlevich Uspensky, a senior official in the local government Office of State Property, and Nadezhda Glebovna Uspenskaya (née Sokolova). He was named after his grandfather on his mother's side, Gleb Fomich Sokolov who served as the head of the Office of State
the bohemian author Ivan Kondratyev (known as 'The Poet of Nikolsky market-place') who contributed to "Razvlechenye" magazine. There Nikolai Uspensky started to publish his new sketches of country life, featuring crooked vile peasants and noble, naive masters. Influenced by Kondratyev, Uspensky started a series of 'revelatory' memoirs about Lev Tolstoy, Nekrasov, Turgenev and Gleb Uspensky. For the leftist critics, this only went to justify their opinion of Uspensky being a has-been, and even the conservative journalists like Viktor