Nikolai Dmitrievich Teleshov - Russian writer, poet, organizer of the famous circle of Moscow writers "Wednesday" (1899-1916), hereditary honorary citizen of Moscow, honored art worker of the RSFSR (1938).
Russian writer Nikolai Dmitrievich Teleshov was born into a Moscow merchant family in 1867. His ancestors were serfs of the Vladimir province, who were independently redeemed at will. Nicholas started reading and literature early. As a twelve-year-old teenager in 1880, he witnessed the grandiose Pushkin celebrations in Moscow: the grand opening of the monument to the poet, speeches by Dostoevsky, Turgenev, and others. A little earlier, at the age of ten, Nikolai got acquainted with the process of the creation of the book in the printing house of ID Sytin. Over time, the need arose to join the literary process myself. Business ties and friendship with Sytin will accompany Nikolai all his life. He later received a good education at the Moscow Practical Commercial Academy, from which he graduated in 1884.