Fyodor sologub biography

Biography Fyodor Sologub

Poet Biography

Fedor Kuz'mich Teternikov (Fyodor Sologub) was born in St.

Petersburg.

Fyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist.

Fyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist.

Fyodor Sologub Biography.

Fyodor Sologub was a Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, translator, playwright and essayist.

EODOR SOLOGUB WAS BORN on March 1 [which is February 17, according to the old Russian calendar], , in Saint Petersburg to the family of a tailor, former.

Fyodor Sologub, author of melancholic verse and of a novel, Melky bes (; The Petty Demon), about a sadistic, homicidal, paranoid schoolteacher.

His father, a tailor and a shoemaker, died when Sologub was four. His mother was illiterate and worked as a servant and laundry woman. After graduating from a community college and Teachers' Training Institute in 1882, Sologub worked, with his mother and sister, as a teacher in provincial schools in Northern Russia.

He taught mostly mathematics and in 1892 he returned to St. Petersburg, where he taught at the town community college and then was appointed inspector of schools. In 1907 he devoted himself entirely to writing.

Russian Symbolist poet, novelist, playwright and essayist.

In the same year his sister died - the loss left deep marks on Sologub's calm poetry. "Forgotten are wine and merriment, Abandoned are armour and sword. Alone he descends to the dungeon, And refuses to light a lamp." As a writer Sologub started his career in the 1880's in magazi