Неизвестный известный Ершов, или Четыре этюда об авторе знаменитой сказки

Abstract

The work is devoted to unknown sides of the life and creation of Petr Pavlovich Jershov, the author of the famous tale Koniok-Gorbunok. Jershov is presented as an active participant of Pushkin’s epoch. He was one of several authors of the popular magazine The Library for Reading, where his works were published with Pushkin’s poetry. Later he became an important fi gure in Siberian culture and a gifted journalist in the newspaper Tobolskie Gubernskie Vedomosti. On the basis of newly found facts and documents, the author presents Jershov’s contribution to the creation of the image of Kozma Prutkov and the role of Jershov in the destiny of the artist from Ishima Nikolai Gaetanovich Madji, Italian by birth, who had written one of the best portraits of the Russian poet.