Pomyalovsky, Nikolay Gerasimovich (1835-1863), a writer

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Pomyalovsky, Nikolay Gerasimovich (1835-1863), a writer. Pomyalovsky attended the Alexander Nevski Religious School during 1843-1851 and the St. Petersburg Theological Seminary during 1851-1857, lectures at the St. Petersburg Universite. From 1860 Pomyalovsky taught at a Sunday school in the Neva Outpost District. He started to wtite from the late 1850s. His series of two dramas "Meshchanskoye schstye" ("Bourgeois Happiness") and "Molotov" (1861) were published in the magazine "Sovremennik" ("The Contemporary"). The work "Ocherki bursi" ("The Essays about the Life at Bursa", 1862-1863) are devoted to the memoirs about Pomyalovsky's seminary youth. In summer 1863 Pomyalovsky lived in Ivanovskaya village located on the River Tosna right bank at the place of flowing it into the River Neva (now it is Otradnoye Town of the Kirovsk District). The final part of "Ocherki bursi" ("The Essays about the Life at Bursa") and the beginning of the story "Porechane" were written in Ivanovskaya village. N.S. Pomyalovsky died in St. Petersburg, he was buried at the Malaya Okhta Cemetery. In 1944 Pomyalovsky's ashes and the gravestone were brought at the Literatorskiye Mostki Necropolis at the Volkovo Cemetery. Margolis, Aleksandr Davidovich
Pomyalovsky, Nikolay Gerasimovich
Historical Toponyms/Ivanovka Village
Leningrad Oblast, the/Kirovsk District/Otradnoye Town
Topographical landmarks/Tosna River, the
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