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269:, "The works of Yakushkin are just snapshots of real life that he was making while roaming the Russian land. They amount to little but occasional observations thrown hastily into a notebook to receive later but a slight editing treatment. Yet they are priceless for representing the attitude to the real life drastically different to the one that was common at the time. Never idealizing or mocking the rural habits, he is an objective scientist deeply submerged into the subject which he knows and understands profoundly well. No matter how chaotic, his stories highlight most typical and characteristic aspects of life, and in his ability to grasp the very essence of what’s happening around he's a real artist. You won't find here any striking or original characters, but the collective voice of the people, merging into a common choir of our peasant world, sounds convincing - and that is something you’d be hard put to find in the 1840s Russian 'folkish' literature. 184:(the side effect of another ploy for 'extracting' a song from a country man, that of buying them a drink) and carefree mindset involved Yakushkin in all kinds of trouble (including a couple of arrests and imprisonment for alleged 'agitation') and made him a legend in his own time. The way he looked (disheveled hair, strange costume mixing rural and urban elements, spectacles included) helped too: the series of Yakushkin's photo portraits produced by Berestov were selling well in the rural areas where people seriously believed them to be the authentic snapshots of the 18th-century rebel 208: 39: 152:
Pavel Yakushkin was born at the Saburovo estate in the Maloarchangelsky region of the Oryol Governorate, one of the six sons of Ivan Andreyevich Yakushkin, a retired military man, and his wife Praskovya Faleyevna, a former serf peasant who'd been granted freedom.
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who began commissioning the young man for long journeys into the Russian backwoods province. Yakushkin who started out as a travelling salesman, exchanging goods for songs, relied upon this unorthodox method of the ethnographical study for the rest of his life.
273:'s vernacular is represented impeccably, without a trace of exaggeration or artificiality. Here the literature about common people's everyday life makes a step upon the entirely new ground and Yakushkin is a pioneer of this new development." 233:(1860). They came out as separate editions in 1860 (as "Russian Songs Gathered by P.Yakushkin") and 1865 ("Folk Songs From P.Yakushkin's Collection"), both books praised by the critics. 195:
and died in Samara on January 20, 1872. Author and doctor Veniamin Portugalov, who visited him in hospital, remembered that the dying man's last words were those of his favourite
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faculty but dropped after four years of studying due to sudden passion for gathering folk songs. In this he was much encouraged by his mentor
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which he was singing as he was passing away: "Drinking we'll do, partying we'll do / And when the death comes in, then dying we'll do."
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Pavel Yakushkin started his literary career as a travelling ethnographer and collector of Russian folk songs which he published in the
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Yakushkin (leftmost) among the travelling Russian ethnographers. The 1864's
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Yakushkin's letters and sketches published in the late 1850s formed the
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Yakushkin

Oryol
Governorate
Russian Empire
Samara
Oryol Governorate
Russian Empire
Samara
Russian writer
ethnographer
folklore
gymnasium
Moscow University
physics
mathematics
Pyotr Kireyevsky
alcoholism
Yemelyan Pugachov
Relapsing fever
folk song

Otechestvennye Zapiski
Sovremennik
Alexander Skabichevsky
Muzhik
"Pavel Ivanovich Yakushkin"


"Pavel Yakushkin"

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