Nadson S.Y. (1862-1887), poet

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NADSON Semen Yakovlevich (1862, St. Petersburg - 1887), writer. Graduated from Pavlovsky Military School (1882). In 1884 resigned on account of illness. A.N. Pleshcheev played an important part in his literary life. From 1882 he was a full member of Pushkin circle, contributed to Otechestvennye zapiski, from 1884 worked as the secretary of Nedelya newspaper's editor. His Poems, published in St. Petersburg in 1885, won him immense literary success (by 1917 there were 29 editions with the total circulation of over 200,000 books; Pushkin Prize, 1886). Nadson was reckoned as a 'timeless' poet, who expressed the feelings of the whole generation, the people of the 1880s. Some poems of Nadson are devoted to St. Petersburg (Children of the Capital from their youth..., The Old House, The Summer Day is Turning White... Above the Sumptuous Neva..., etc.). The major part of his Petersburg life Nadson spent in Kronstadt. For a certain period (about 1884) he lived in Kuznechny Lane in St. Petersburg (the number of the building has not been determined). Died in Yalta, buried at Literatorskie Mostki.

References: Бялый Г. А. С. Я. Надсон // Надсон С. Я. Полн. собр. стихотворений. Л., 1962. С. 5-46; Ходасевич В. Надсон // Вопр. лит. 1987. № 9. С. 206-224.

A. B. Muratov. Nadson Semen Yakovlevich
Pleshcheev Alexey Nikolaevich
Kuznechny Lane/Saint Petersburg, city
Бялый Г. А. С. Я. Надсон // Надсон С. Я. Полн. собр. стихотворений. Л., 1962
Ходасевич В. Надсон // Вопр. лит., 1987 Otechestvennye Zapiski (Notes of the Fatherland), journal
Literatorskie (Literary) Mostki, the museum-necropolis