Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev is considered the great Russian writer of the Silver Age. This writer worked not only in a realistic form, but also in a symbolic one. Despite the fact that this creator is considered a mysterious person, he knew how to transform an ordinary character into a person, forcing readers to reflect.
1. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev loved the works of Hartmann and Schopenhauer.
2.Andreev is called the founder of Russian expressionism.
3. During his school years, this writer drew cartoons of students and teachers.
4. Paintings by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev were at exhibitions and were appreciated by Repin and Roerich.
5. According to the writer, he inherited positive and negative traits from his parents. His mother gave him creative abilities, and his father - love for alcohol and firmness of character.
6. The writer managed to study at two universities: in Moscow and in St. Petersburg.
7. Having a diploma allowed Andreev to start a career as a lawyer.
8. The pseudonym of Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev was James Lynch.
9. For a long time, the writer had to live in a country house in Finland.
10. Until 1902 Andreev was an assistant attorney at law, and also acted as a defense lawyer in the courts.
11.Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev several times tried to commit suicide. The first time he lay down on the rails, the second - he shot himself with a pistol.
12. The first story that Andreyev wrote was not recognized.
13. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev was married twice.
14. The first wife of Andreeva, whose name was Alexandra Mikhailovna Veligorskaya, was the grand-niece of Taras Shevchenko. She died in childbirth.
15. Andreev's second wife is Anna Ilyinichna Denisevich, who lived abroad after his death.
16. Andreev had 5 children in marriages: 4 sons and 1 daughter.
17.All of Andreev's children followed in the footsteps of their father and were engaged in literature and creativity.
18. Leonid Nikolaevich met with enthusiasm the February revolution and the First World War.
19. From his house Andreev made a shelter for revolutionaries.
20. Andreev became famous only after in 1901 he wrote his collection "Stories".
21.The great writer was buried in Finland, despite the fact that the last years of his life he lived in Leningrad.
22. The death of the writer led to heart disease.
23. In childhood, Andreev was fascinated by reading books.
24. Leonid Nikolaevich's active literary activity began with the publication "Courier".
25. Studying at the university, Andreev had to go through a love drama. His chosen one refused to marry him.
26. As a university student, Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev taught.
27. Andreev was able to get closer to Gorky.
28. For the fact that Andreev had connections with the opposition, the police gave him a recognizance not to leave.
29. Leonid Nikolayevich Andreev went to live in Germany due to the fact that the government controlled him through loyalty to the revolutionaries.
30.The second son of the writer was born in Germany.
31. In 1957, the writer was reburied in St. Petersburg.
32. In his childhood, the writer was fond of painting, but in his city there were no special schools for training and therefore he did not receive such an education, and remained self-taught until the end of his life.
33. Andreev was published in modernist almanacs and magazines at the publishing house "Rosehip".
34. The revolution inspired Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev to write "Notes of Satan".
35 In Oryol in 1991 a house-museum in memory of this writer was opened.
36. Andreev did not have "rainbow" works.
37. The writer was born in the Oryol province. Bunin and Turgenev were also walking there.
38. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev was a very handsome man.
39. Leonid Nikolaevich had less taste than talent.
40. In 1889, the most difficult year of his life came in the life of the writer, because his father died, as well as a crisis of love relations.
41. Many believe that Andreev had the gift of foresight.
42. Maxim Gorky was a mentor and critic of Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev.
43 In a large family, the future writer became the firstborn.
44. The writer's mother was from a family of poor Polish landowners, and his father was a land surveyor.
45. Andreev's father died of apoplectic stroke, leaving 6 children orphans.
46. For a long time he did not want to see the baby, at the birth of which Andreev's wife died.
47.The writer was paid 5 rubles in gold per line.
48. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev managed to build a house with a tower, which he called "Advance".
49. Initially, the writer's death was not even noticed at home. For 40 years he was forgotten.
50. Leonid Nikolaevich died at the age of 48.
51. Andreev's mother always spoiled him.
52. Throughout his life, Leonid Nikolaevich tried to fight the habit of alcohol abuse.
53. In school, Andreev constantly skipped lessons and did not study well.
54.The study of the writer at Moscow University was paid for by the society of the needy.
55. Edgar Poe, Jules Verne and Charles Dickens are considered favorite authors, which Leonid Andreev has repeatedly re-read.
56. On the shoulders of Andreev after the death of his father fell the responsibilities of the head of the family.
57. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev for the years of his life worked in the newspaper "Russian Will".
58. Andreev was fond of reading philosophical treatises.
59. In 1907, Andreev managed to receive the Griboyedov Literary Prize, after which not a single work of his was successful.
60. Plays by Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev were filmed.
61. The writer could not finish writing the novel "The Diary of Satan". They graduated from it only after the death of Andreev.
62. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev, despite his connections with the Bolsheviks, hated Lenin.
63. Andreev was admired by such contemporaries as: Blok and Gorky.
64. The works of Tolstoy and Chekhov had a huge impact on the formation of Andreev as a creative person.
65.The writer also created illustrations for his works.
66. Critics have argued that there are notes of "cosmic pessimism" in Andreev's works.
67.The writer was expelled from St. Petersburg University for non-payment.
68. Andreev got married with his first wife in church.
69. For a short time Leonid Nikolaevich was in prison.
70. Over the years of his life, Andreev wooed many women. At that time, there was even a joke that he “made an offer to all the artists of the art theater in turn”.
71. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev even courted the sisters of his two spouses.
72. Before marrying his second wife, Andreev asked her to return her name given at birth - Anna. This was due to the fact that only prostitutes were called Matilda at that time.
73. He left the child, because of whom the first wife of the writer died, to be raised by his mother-in-law.
74. Andreev's daughter had to work as a cleaner, and a nurse, and a servant. She ended up becoming a writer like her father.
75. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev named his youngest son Valentin in honor of Serov.
76 In the last years of his life, Andreev thought a lot about the psychology of creativity.
77. The writer never took part in political life.
78. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev is considered a Russian writer of the Silver Age.
79.Andreeva's mother graduated only from the parish school.
80.After an unsuccessful suicide attempt, Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev repented in the church.
81. The creation of the work "Red Laughter" Andreev was prompted by the Russian-Japanese war.
82. Until the age of 12, Andreev was taught by his parents, and only from the age of 12 he was sent to a classical gymnasium.
83. Leonid Nikolaevich is considered one of the first writers of the 20th century.
84. The writer wrote his story "Judas Iscariot" in Capri.
85. Contemporaries called this writer "the sphinx of the Russian intelligentsia."
86. At 6 years old Andreev already knew the alphabet.
87. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev was paid 11 rubles for a portrait.
88. During his life, 5 years Andreev worked in the legal profession.
89. This man simply could not imagine his life without love.
90.The first and only secretary of Leonid Nikolaevich was his second wife.
91. The descendants of this writer live in America and Paris today.
92. Andreev was also considered a master of color photography.
93. Approximately 400 color stereo autochromes of Andreev are known today.
94. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev had a passion for invention.
95. The death of Nietzsche was perceived by this writer as a personal loss.
96. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev was a member of the commission for the organization of literary "Tuesdays".
97. About Andreev filmed a television program with the title "Documentary history".
98. Only Gorky paid attention to Andreev's first story.
99. Leonid Nikolaevich Andreev is considered an expressionist writer.
100. The writer actively attended a literary circle of that time called "Wednesday", which was created by Teleshov.
