Vsevolod Garshin

Vsevolod Garshin (1855-1888), born in the Bakhmut district, was studying at the Saint Petersburg Mining Institute when he enlisted as a volunteer in the Russo-Turkish war of 1877. Wounded in Bulgaria, he drew from it his first story, the monologue of a wounded soldier left on the battlefield. He wrote only about twenty stories. Subject all his life to attacks of mental illness, he was treated in 1880 in a lunatic asylum in Kharkov. He died in Saint Petersburg in 1888, at the age of thirty-three.

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