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Vsevolod Garshin

Born

in Ekaterinoslav Province, Russian Empire

February 14, 1855

Died

April 05, 1888

Genre

Short Stories, Literature & Fiction

Influences

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Vsevolod Garshin (Russian: Всеволод Михайлович Гаршин) is considered one of Russia's masters of short fiction. The son of a wealthy army officer, he served in the last of the Russo-Turkish Wars (1877 to 1878) and wrote his first story, "Four Days" (1877), while recovering from battle wounds. His subsequent stories, which were praised by Ivan Turgenev and Anton Chekhov, often dealt with the subject of evil. Garshin suffered from recurring bouts of mental illness and his masterpiece, "The Scarlet Flower" (1883), was based on his confinement in an asylum. He committed suicide at 33. His collected works were translated into English as The Signal and Other Stories (1912). ...more

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Average rating: 3.96 · 2,385 ratings · 246 reviews · 164 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Red Flower 4.03 avg rating — 541 ratings — published 1883	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Signal 3.60 avg rating — 124 ratings — published 1887 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De beren: en andere verhalen by Vsevolod Garshin, Hans Boland (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 109 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Frog Went Travelling by Vsevolod Garshin, Nikita Charushin (Illustrator), Olga Shartse (Translator) 3.52 avg rating — 119 ratings — published 1887 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Attalea princeps by Vsevolod Garshin, Manuela Lazzerotti (Editor) 3.92 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 1880 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Четыре дня by Vsevolod Garshin, Всеволод Михайлович Гаршин 4.19 avg rating — 79 ratings — published 1877 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La señal y otros relatos 3.94 avg rating — 50 ratings — published 1915 — 36 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Рассказы by Vsevolod Garshin, Всеволод Михайлович Гаршин 3.97 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1975 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	From the Reminiscences of Private Ivanov and Other Stories 4.29 avg rating — 31 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories from Garshin by Vsevolod Garshin, Sergey Stepnyak-Kravchinsky, Ethel Lilian Voynich 4.30 avg rating — 30 ratings — published 1893 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Vsevolod Garshin (?)

“The flower, as he saw it, ruled over evil; it absorbed in itself all innocently shed blood (that is why it is so red) all tears and all the gall of humanity. It was an awful and mysterious being, the antitheses of God, an Ahriman presenting a most unassuming and innocent appearance. It was necessary to break it off and kill it. But this was not all; it was also necessary not to permit it at its death to discharge its evil upon the world.”
― Vsevolod Garshin

tags: evil, flowers, insane-asylum, russian-literature

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“Spanish fly,”
― Vsevolod Garshin, A Red Flower

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