Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov (1821-1878) - poet, writer and publicist, classic of Russian literature. He was born on November 28, 1821 in the family of a small-town nobleman in Nemirov, Podolsk province. In 1832-1837. Nekrasov studied at the Yaroslavl Gymnasium. At the same time, he began to write poetry. In 1838, he moved to St. Petersburg, where he was a free student at the Faculty of Philology for two years. In 1840, he published his first collection of poems, Dreams and Sounds.
In 1841, he began working in the magazine "Otechestvennye Zapiski". In 1843, he met V. G. Belinsky, which led to the appearance of realistic poems: "On the Road" and two almanacs — "Physiology of St. Petersburg" and "St. Petersburg collection". In 1847-1866. Nekrasov is the publisher and editor of Sovremennik magazine. During this period, the poet wrote lyrical poems dedicated to his common-law wife A. Ya. Panaeva, poems and cycles of poems about the urban poor ("On the Street", "About the Weather"), about the people ("Uncompressed Strip", "Railway", "Peasant children", "Frost, Red Nose", etc.). In the 1850s and 1860s, the poet created such works as" The Poet and the Citizen"," Reflections at the front Door","Peddlers". In 1866, the Sovremennik was closed. Nekrasov acquired the right to publish the magazine "Otechestvennye Zapiski", which was associated with the last years of his life. Then the poet wrote the poem "Who in Russia to live well" (1866-1876), poems about the Decembrists and their wives — "Grandfather" (1870); "Russian women" (1871-1872).
In recent years, the poet has embraced elegiac motifs associated with the loss of friends, loneliness, and severe illness. During this period appeared: "Three elegies" (1873), "Despondency" (1874)," The last songs " (1877).
The post block depicts a portrait of N. A. Nekrasov, in the fields of the post block-a landscape, the poet's dog, the museum-reserve of N. A. Nekrasov "Karabikha".
In addition to the issue of the postal block, envelopes of the first day were issued and special postmarks were made for Moscow, St. Petersburg, Yaroslavl, Kaliningrad and the Red Weavers of the Yaroslavl region.
Artist-designer: I. Ulyanovsk.
Nominal value: 100 p.
Block size: 108×82 mm; stamp size per block: 50×37 mm.
Circulation: 30 thousand.
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