About the book: 1956 / Turkin (pseud. Gavrilovich) Alexander Gavrilovich [1870, V.-Ufaleysky plant (according to other sources - village. Arkhangelo-Pashiysky plant, Perm district, Perm province) - Dec. 1919, near Novonikolaevsk (now Novosibirsk)], poet, prose writer, 1st professor. writer Chel. Widely published in local and all-Ural publications. and all-Russian ed. Was involved in organizing people. readings in Chel., worked at the Society for the Care of Primary Education. In current for a number of years he was a permanent presenter of the “Chelyabinsk Life” column in Gaz. "Ural Week" (Ekaterinburg). On Dec. 1915 headed by gas. "Voice of the Urals". Actively helped in the formation of young writers and poets: Yu. N. Libedinsky, V. T. Yurezansky, P. Kotelnikov, M. E. Chuchelov, G. Bulychev. The first poet. Sat. Matinee was released in Chel. will enter in 1918. Art. T. under the name. "Fresh grains." Children's and youth. T.'s years passed in the village. V.-Ufaleysky plant. T. worked as a clerk in a factory office. From 1900 he lived in Chel., passed the exams to become a private attorney, and practiced law. That same year he traveled to Paris for the World Exhibition. Correspondence about the trip was published on the pages of Ural Life. First production - poem. “You died early...” was published in 1889 in the newspaper. "Ekaterinburg Week". In the beginning 1890 the following stories appeared there: “The Miner”, “The Cross Didn’t Give Up”, “At the Fire”, the heroes of which were factory workers and office workers. In 1896, T.’s essay “A Page from the Past” was published. in “Russian Wealth”, headed by V. G. Korolenko. In 1902, Sat. stories by T. “Ural miniatures”. Since 1906, T. began to be systematically published in the capital's journals: “Russian Wealth”, “Sovremennik”, “Modern World”, “Magazine for Everyone”. In 1914 in the publishing house. The Writers' Association in St. Petersburg published the 2nd book. stories by T. “Steppe”. T. written to St. 400 arts. - journalistic prod. Only on gas. “Ekaterinburg Week” from 1890 to 1896 were published. 38 stories, poems, miniatures; 33 production - into the gas. "Ural" and "Voice of the Urals". The development of the writer was facilitated by his acquaintance and correspondence with M. Gorky, Korolenko, A. P. Chekhov, S. I. Gusev-Orenburgsky, D. N. Mamin-Sibiryak, P. F. Yakubovich (Melshin). In Sov. production time T. were reprinted several times. once. In 1935, a collection was published in Sverdlovsk. “Selected Works”, in 1937 - in Chel. Part of production included in the 2nd volume of “Stories and Tales of Writers of the Urals” (1956), collection. “The Soul Hurts” (1960), etc. According to V. A. Vesnovsky, T. died in the 2nd half. Dec. 1919 “at one of the stations between Novonikolaevsk and Mariinsk from typhus.” E. B. Druzhinina