Nikolay Nekrasov

In this article, the patronymic is Alexeyevich and the family name is Nekrasov.

Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov (Russian: Никола́й Алексе́евич Некра́сов, IPA: [nʲɪkɐˈlaj ɐlʲɪkˈsʲejɪvʲɪtɕ nʲɪˈkrasəf] (listen), 10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1821 – 8 January 1878 [O.S. 27 December 1877]) was a Russian poet, writer, critic, and publisher. He made very compassionate poems about the Russian peasantry. These poems made him popular around liberal and radical intellectuals of the 1800s. He was one of the first Russians to use ternary meters and dramatic monologue. He edited many literary journals, such as Sovremennik.

Nikolay Nekrasov
Nekrasov in 1870
Born	Nikolay Alexeyevich Nekrasov 10 December [O.S. 28 November] 1821 Nemyriv, Bratslavsky Uyezd, Podolia Governorate, Russian Empire
Died	8 January 1878 [O.S. 27 December 1877] (aged 56) Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire
Occupation	Poet, publisher
Language	Russian
Nationality	Russian
Spouse	Fyokla Viktorova
Signature

Portrait of Nikolai Nekrasov by Nikolai Ge, 1872.

Important works

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

Other websites

• Several poems by Nekrasov translated into English
• Works by Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov at Project Gutenberg
• Works by or about Nikolay Nekrasov at Internet Archive
• Works by Nikolay Nekrasov at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
• English translations of 3 poems by Babette Deutsch and Avrahm Yarmolinsky, 1921
• English translations of 4 short poems
• English translation of "A Friendly Correspondence Between Moscow and Petersburg" in The Hopkins Review
• Some texts by Nikolai Nekrasov in the original Russian
• Nekrasov Library