1. Vsevolod Mikhailovich Garshin was a Russian author of short stories.
12 Facts About Vsevolod Garshin
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Vsevolod Garshin attended secondary school and then the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute.
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Vsevolod Garshin volunteered to serve in the army at the start of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877.
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Vsevolod Garshin participated in the Balkans Campaign as a private, and was wounded in action.
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Vsevolod Garshin was promoted to the rank of officer at the end of the war.
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Vsevolod Garshin resigned his commission soon after in order to devote his time to literary efforts.
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Vsevolod Garshin had previously published a number of articles in newspapers, mostly reviews of art exhibitions.
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Vsevolod Garshin attempted to commit suicide by throwing himself down the stone stairs leading to his apartment building.
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Vsevolod Garshin's work is not voluminous: it consists of some twenty stories, all of them included in a single volume.
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Vsevolod Garshin's stories are characterized by a spirit of compassion and pity that some have compared to Dostoevsky's.
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Vsevolod Garshin's best-known and most characteristic story is "A Red Flower"; it fits in the series of lunatic-asylum stories in Russian literature.
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In 1883, Vsevolod Garshin was the model for the younger Ivan in Ilya Repin's painting Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan.