26 Facts About Vladimir Korolenko

Vladimir Galaktionovich Korolenko was a writer, journalist, human rights soldier and humanitarian of a Ukrainian origin in the Russian Empire.

Vladimir Korolenko was born in Zhytomyr, Ukraine, then part of the Russian Empire.

Vladimir Korolenko's Ukrainian Cossack father, Poltava-born Galaktion Afanasyevich Korolenko, was a district judge who, "amongst the people of his profession looked like a Don Quixote with his defiant honesty and refusal to take bribes", as his son later remembered.

Vladimir Korolenko started his education in a Polish Rykhlinsky boarding school to continue it in the Zhitomir and later Rovno gymnasiums, graduating the latter with silver medal.

Vladimir Korolenko cited Taras Shevchenko and Ukrainian folklore as major influences.

In 1871 Vladimir Korolenko enrolled into Saint Petersburg Technological Institute but after a year spent in utmost poverty had to leave in early 1873 due to financial problems.

Vladimir Korolenko was expelled from it in 1876 for having signed a collective letter protesting against the arrest of a fellow student, and was exiled to the Vologda region, then Kronstadt, where the authorities agreed to transfer him, answering his mother's plea.

Vladimir Korolenko spent the next three years in Amga, a small settlement 275 versts from Yakutsk, where he did manual work, but studied local customs and history.

In Nizhny, Vladimir Korolenko became the center of the local social activism, attracting radicals to fight all kinds of wrongdoing committed by the authorities, according to the biographer Semyon Vengerov.

Vladimir Korolenko was a member of the Russian Academy of Sciences but resigned in 1902 when Maxim Gorky was expelled as a member because of his revolutionary activities.

Vladimir Korolenko gave a speech in 1911 at the opening of the monument to Mykola Gogol in Sorochyntsy.

Vladimir Korolenko created the series "Domestic Phenomenon" to oppose military courts and mass death sentences.

Vladimir Korolenko never belonged to any political party, but ideologically was close to the Popular Socialists.

Vladimir Korolenko, who was a lifetime opponent of Tsarism and described himself as a "party-less Socialist", reservedly welcomed the Russian Revolution of 1917 which he considered to be a logical result of the whole historical course of things.

Vladimir Korolenko was elected the honourable member of the Save the Children League, and the All-Russia Committee for Helping the Famine Victims.

Vladimir Korolenko died in Poltava, Ukraine, of the complications of pneumonia on 25 December 1921.

Yulian Vladimir Korolenko was born on 16 February 1851, died 15 November 1904 and in the 1870s worked as a proofreader in Saint Petersburg.

Vladimir Korolenko is portrayed in two of Korolenko's autobiographical stories, "At Night" and "Paradox".

Maria Vladimir Korolenko graduated the Moscow Ekaterininsky Institute and worked as a midwife.

Vladimir Korolenko married the Military Surguical Academy student Nikolai Loshkaryov and in 1879 followed him into exile to Krasnoyarsk.

Evelina Vladimir Korolenko, graduated the midwife courses in Petersburg, and later worked as a proofreader.

In January 1886 Vladimir Korolenko married Evdokiya Semyonovna Ivanovskaya, a fellow Narodnik he first met years ago in Moscow.

Natalya Lyakhovich-Vladimir Korolenko was a philologist and literary historian, who edited some of the post-1921 editions of her father's books.

Vladimir Korolenko's Book on My Father is a biography taken up exactly where his own The History of My Contemporary left of, in 1885 when, having just returned from exile, he settled in Nizhny Novgorod.

The early Soviet critic Pyotr Kogan argued that Vladimir Korolenko was in a way contradicting himself by denouncing the revolutionary terror for it was him who had collected "the immense set of documents damning the Tsarist regime" which completely justified the cruelties of the Bolsheviks.

Vladimir Korolenko is generally considered to be a major Russian writer of the late 19th century and early 20th century.