Zagoskins biography is briefly

Born: on July 14, Ramzai, now the Moksha region of the Penza region died: on June 23, having learned to read and write in the parental house on June 23, Zagoskin in the city of acquaintance with Prince A. Shakhovsky, who at that time served a member of the repertoire part at that time, had a decisive influence on the further fate of Zagoskin, opening his access to the theater.

Zagoskin entered the service of an assistant member in the repertoire part, and in the city, in the city of Zagoskin, he published, with the Zharsky and Ivanov, the magazine: "Northern Observer". Having moved, in the city of Aksakov and F. Kokoshkin and the same as in St. Petersburg, he was actively engaged in literature and self -education. Having stood in Kokoshkin, Zagoskin took the place of a member on the economic part.

During this period, he wrote: “Bogatonov in the village, or a surprise to himself”, “single lesson, or heirs”, “village philosopher”, “rehearsal at the station” and “noble theater” with G. Zagoskin begins to write novels, from which the first, “Yuri Miloslavsky”, was of extraordinary success and made great fame to the author. Zagoskin was appointed director of Moscow theaters and soon elected to the Russian Academy.

In the last years of his life, Zagoskin published a collection: "Moscow and Muscovites" dedicated to the past and real ancient capital.

The last works of Zagoskin were comedies: "Trip abroad", "The Zaledlat City" and "Married Groom" in the number of written Zagoskin - one of the fertile writers of ours; By the power of talent, it belongs to the number of secondary and in our time of almost completely forgotten authors. Only "Yuri Miloslavsky" finds more readers among youth or competent commoners. The universal delight caused by this novel in contemporaries is most explained by the fact that this was the first historical Russian novel.

As a novelist, Zagoskin imitated Walter Scott; As the author of comedies, of which many, at one time, were a great success, he walked, following Shakhovsky, along the battered path of the French comedy, with its conditional, outdated tricks. The success of Zagoskin’s works was not a little contributed to the author’s very personality: it was a good -natured and sincere person.

In the fiery "patriotism" of the well -known germ that his novels are imbued, there was nothing pretense. The complete collected works of Zagoskin, with a biographical essay and a chronological list of everything written by him, was published in the city of a detailed biography.