1853 Vladimir Korolenko was born

165 years ago, on July 27, 1853, Vladimir Korolenko, a Russian writer, journalist, publicist and public figure, was born. During the years of the Civil War, he bravely stood up for all those unjustly persecuted before all the authorities that were changing in Poltava, where he lived at that time.

In 1919, in a letter to Gorky, Lenin spoke of Korolenko as follows:

“Korolenko is the best of the “near-Cadet” ones, almost a Menshevik. And what a vile, vile, vile defense of the imperialist war, covered with sugary phrases! A pitiful tradesman, captivated by bourgeois prejudices! For such gentlemen, 10,000,000 killed in the imperialist war is a cause worthy of support ( de la mi, with sugary phrases "against" the war), and the death of hundreds of thousands in a just civil war against the landowners and capitalists causes gasps, groans, sighs, hysterics. No. It is not a sin for such "talents" to spend weeks in prison, if this must be done to prevent conspiracies (like Krasnaya Gorka) and the death of tens of thousands ... "