Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov is a Russian poet whose picture shows the Nekrasov House at 36 Rijjinai Avenue, St. Petersburg, Russia. (This article is photographed / Che Jixin)
Born on December 10, 1821, Nekrasov was born into a family of officers in the Podorisk Governorate of Ukraine and spent his childhood on a manor house in the village of Gleshnevo, Yaroslavl Governorate.
In 1838 Nekrasov was sent to the Petersburg Military School, but he disobeyed his father's orders to attend the University of Petersburg, thus losing the financial support of his family and beginning a long life of poverty.
In 1840 Nekrasov published his first book of poetry, Fantasy and Sound, mostly imitations and criticism. In 1841 he identified Linsky and embarked on the path of revolutionary democracy and "true poet".
In 1845 Nekrasov wrote The Corner of Petersburg and On the Journey, which Belinsky predicted as a man who "would have an impact on the history of literature".
Nekrasov lived in a time when there was a fierce struggle between the proponents of "pure art" in Russian literature and the "Gogolists". Nekrasov took a clear stand on the side of the "Gogol" (i.e., critical realism) and proposed that literature should serve the great goals of the times.
In a long poem of 1876, Nekrasov clearly set the direction of his creation: "I have not won glory to our nobles with my seven-stringed piano..." This sentence is true and noble.
Nekrasov was the faithful heir to the Pushkin and Gogol traditions. He was a civic poet. He advocated exposing the greed and brutality of the rulers, revealing the inside story of the bloody Reality of Russia, and truly reproducing the miserable life of the Russian people. (Nekrasov picture from the Internet)