Invincible is probably the best definition of the character of an engineer and writer. Garin-Mikhailovsky always gave all his best, referring to what he was doing.
Childhood
He was born in 1852 into a wealthy noble family. Father - George Antonovich Mikhailovsky in the war during the attack was wounded and awarded for courage. Having retired, he settled in Odessa. His first-born Nika was the godfather of Nicholas I. Mother Glafira Nikolaevna was a noblewoman of Serbian descent. The boy grew up beautiful, cheerful, but very lively and nimble on the mountain.
He continually violated the orders of his father, whom he loved very much, and therefore his father gripped the belt in haste. The future writer Garin-Mikhailovsky studied at the Richelieu gymnasium. All this will be later described in two parts of the tetralogy: “Childhood of the Tema” and “Gymnasium students”. In them, almost every hero has a real prototype. Only forty years old finished the first biographical novel Garin-Mikhailovsky "Childhood of the Dark." He wrote his work in passing, one might say, "on his knees," wherever necessary. But while reading, you do not notice this.
Youth
At the end of the gymnasium, Garin-Mikhailovsky decided to become a lawyer and entered the university. But a year later the commandment of the soul brings him to the Institute of Railways. It was a tremendous fortune both for himself and for society. Garin-Mikhailovsky later became a talented practical engineer.
In the meantime, he works as a fireman in Bessarabia. But when he finishes his studies, he receives a direction to Bulgaria, and then participates in the construction of the Bender-Galician road. The work of a survey engineer was very carried away by Nikolai Georgievich. In addition, there were decent earnings. In the same 1879, he very happily marries Nadezhda Valeryevna Charykova (they had eleven children and three foster children). The wedding takes place in Odessa, and the evening train should take the young couple to St. Petersburg. But the cheerful and noisy Mikhailovsky family sets the clock in advance, and the young are late for the train and leave only in the morning. And how many jokes and laughter about this! In St. Petersburg, Mikhailovsky did not like paper work in the ministry. Therefore, he is happy to return to practical work. Builds a section of the Batum-Samtredia railway. The work is very dangerous - in the forests hide gangs of robbers and attack workers. Then he is transferred and appointed head of the Baku section of the Transcaucasian Railway. At the end of 1882, seeing corruption, bribes, he resigned, although he loved the activities of a survey engineer.
Gundurovka (1883–1886)
N.G. Garin-Mikhailovsky buys an estate in the Samara province, where he intends to create an economy that will help raise crops, wants to destroy the kulaks.
The ideas of the Narodniks have already penetrated his mind. But they thrice let the "red rooster" into his estate. A mill, a thresher, and finally the entire crop were destroyed. He was almost ruined and decided to return to the activities of an engineer. He lived in Gundurovka for two and a half years.
Engineering work
In 1886, he returned to his beloved job. He conducted research on the Ural site "Ufa-Zlatoust." The family at this time lives in Ufa. This was the beginning of the Trans-Siberian Railway. He worked as an economist, and the result was a huge savings - 60% of the money for every mile. But this project had to be broken with a fight. At the same time, he continues his literary work, writes the essay “Variant” about this story. Mikhailovsky introduced Stanyukovich to the first chapters of the novel “Childhood of the Theme,” which was published in its entirety in 1892. In addition, documentaries about the village were printed, which were also successful. In 1893, the essay "Journey to the Moon" was published. But in soul and in practice, he remained a railway engineer.
Practical work
She tore off all the time. But it was a favorite thing. Mikhailovsky traveled all over Siberia, the Samara province, traveled to Korea and Manchuria to find out the possibility of building there too. Impressions were included in the essay "On Korea, Manchuria and the Liaodong Peninsula." He traveled to China, Japan and finally through Hawaii arrived in San Francisco.
I traveled by train through all the states and returned to London, stopping by on the way to Paris. In 1902, the essay "Around the World."
A famous person
He became a very famous person in the capital both as a traveler and as a writer. And as a result, he was invited to Nicholas II. He walked with timidity, and returned with bewilderment. The questions asked by the emperor were simple and straightforward and spoke of the limited thinking of the questioner.
Literary life
He worked very actively with a number of magazines. Already published and "Childhood Themes," and "Gymnasium students," and "Students." Work is underway on the Engineers. At the evening meeting of the Herald of Life, he suddenly died. Such a load, which he led, could not withstand the heart. He was 54 years old.
On a gloomy November morning, Petersburg escorted Garin-Mikhailovsky to the last journey to the Volkovo cemetery. There wasn’t enough money for the funeral. I had to collect by subscription.
The book of life
With the "Childhood of the Darkness" began the biography of the writer Garin. He took this pseudonym by the name of his son Harry. But everyone is used to calling the author Garin-Mikhailovsky. Summary - this is a bright and clean spring of childhood memories. The huge manor house on the outskirts of the big southern city and the adjoining "hired yard", which were rented out for rent, where in dirt and dust, in games and mischief shared with poor yard children, Tyoma’s childhood passes - nothing more than his father’s house where Nikolai Mikhailovich spent his childhood.
The childhood of Tyoma Kartashev is happy, but by no means cloudless. The father severely injures the tender baby soul with his misunderstanding. These sufferings of little Tyoma, the fear of a severe and strict father, are painful in the soul of the reader. A sensitive and noble soul mother of Tyoma loves her impetuous and impressionable son without memory and, as much as possible, defends him from the methods of his father's upbringing - merciless flogging. The reader becomes a witness to the merciless brutal execution and horror that fills the soul of the mother. The child turns into a miserable beast. His human dignity has been torn out. The successes and failures of pedagogical experience are relevant in our time, as Garin-Mikhailovsky (“Childhood of the Darkness” shows them). The summary is the spirit of humanity, respect for the personality of the child - the basics of democratic pedagogy. The
child’s childhood ends with a dramatic death
, and his last words will be remembered forever: “If you ever go against the king, I will curse you from the grave.”
The author of tetralogy and many other works has become a man with established democratic beliefs that are adjacent to Marxism. He himself is filled with a bright impulse for people, for good, for life.