Gilyarovsky

13 hrs. 19 min.

Language Russian

Author Aleksey Mitrofanov

Narrator Andrey Leonov

Description

This book is devoted to the “king of reporters,” a master of newspaper sensations, Vladimir Alekseevich Gilyarovsky (1855–1935). With this man’s name are associated the most incredible stories, adventures, legends, and even hoaxes. Throughout his long life, he changed many professions—he was a bargeman, a hook-maker, a theater actor, a circus rider, and a fighter, a horse-herder; he took part in the Russo-Turkish War, yet he became famous as a journalist and everyday life chronicler, and also as a writer of impromptu verses. With his charm, warmth, sharp mind, and humor, he literally attracted people to himself. Among his friends there were celebrities—A.P. Chekhov, V.Ya. Bryusov, A.A. Blok, F.I. Shalyapin, K.S. Stanislavsky, I.E. Repin, A.K. Savrasov, and many others—and also ordinary, lesser-known people: firefighters, jockeys, clowns, and even drunks from the Khitrov Market. No wonder his fame outlived Gilyarovsky by more than eighty years—who among journalists can compare with him?