Nikolay Nekrasov  

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Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov was a Russian poet, writer, critic and publisher, whose deeply compassionate poems about peasant Russia made him the hero of liberal and radical circles of Russian intelligentsia, as represented by Vissarion Belinsky, Nikolay Chernyshevsky and Fyodor Dostoyevsky. He is credited with introducing into Russian poetry ternary meters and the technique of dramatic monologue (On the Road, 1845). As the editor of several literary journals, notably Sovremennik, Nekrasov was also singularly successful and influential.

Selected bibliography

Poetry

• "The Money-lender" (Rostovshchik, 1844)
• "On the Road" (V doroge, 1845)
• "Motherland" (1846)
• "The Doghunt" (Psovaya okhota, 1846)
• On the Street (Na Ulitse, 1850), 4 poems cycle
• "The Fine Match" (Prekrasnaya partia, 1852)
• "Unmowed Line" (Neszhataya polosa, 1854)
• "Vlas" (1855)
• "V.G. Belinsky" (1855)
• Sasha (1855)
• "The Forgotten Village" (Zabytaya derevnya, 1855)
• "Musings at the Front Door" (Razmyshlenya u paradnovo pod’ezda, 1858)
• "The Unhappy Ones (Neschastnye, 1856)
• "The Poet and the Citizen" (Poet i grazhdanin, 1856)
• "Silence" (Tishina, 1857)
• "The Song for Yeryomushka" (Pesnya Yeryomushke, 1859)
• Korobeiniki (1861)
• "The Funeral" (Pokhorony, 1861)
• "Peasant Children" (Krestyanskiye deti, 1861)
• "A Knight for An Hour" (Rytsar na thas, 1862)
• "Green Roar" (Zelyony shum, 1862)

• "Orina, the Soldier's Mother" (Orina, mat soldatskaya, 1863)
• The Railway (Zheleznaya doroga, 1864)
• "Grandfather Frost the Red Nose" (Moroz, Krasny nos, 1864)
• Contemporaries (Sovremenniki, 1865)
• Songs of the Free Word (Pesni svobodnovo slova, 1865-1866)
• Poems for Russian Children (Stikhotvorenya, posvyashchyonnye russkim detyam, 1867-1873)
• "The Bear Hunt. Scenes from the lyrical comedy" (Medvezhya okhota, 1867)
• Grandfather (Dedushka, 1870)
• "The Recent Times" (Nedavneye vremya, 1871)
• Russian Women (Russkiye zhenshchiny: 1872-1873), a dilogy
• "The Morning" (Utro, 1873)
• "The Horrible Year" (Strashny god, 1874)
• The Last Songs (Poslednye pesni, 1877), a cycle
• Who Is Happy in Russia? (Komu na Rusi zhit khorosho, 1863-1876)

Plays

• There is No Hiding a Needle in a Sack (Shila v meshke ne utayich, 1841)

Fiction

• The Life and Adventures of Tikhon Trostnikov (Zhizn i pokhozhdenya Tikhona Trostnikova, 1843-1848) - autobiographical novel, unfinished