Old House & Other Tales
Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov was born on 1st March 1863 in St. Petersburg into the family of a poor tailor. When his father died of tuberculosis in 1867, his illiterate mother was forced to become a servant in the home of an aristocrat, where Sologub and his younger sister grew up.
Seeing how difficult his mother''s life was, Sologub was determined to rescue her from it, and after graduating from th...
Fyodor Kuzmich Teternikov was born on 1st March 1863 in St. Petersburg into the family of a poor tailor. When his father died of tuberculosis in 1867, his illiterate mother was forced to become a servant in the home of an aristocrat, where Sologub and his younger sister grew up.
Seeing how difficult his mother''s life was, Sologub was determined to rescue her from it, and after graduating from th...
