Talk:Nikolay Nekrasov

Issues
I propose to expand the article, and - since this will be done, hopefully, with as little edits as possibble - here’s the list of issues to be dealt with. The Legacy section, though, will demand more attention, so I’ll let it be, for a while.) — Evermore2 (talk) 12:09, 14 October 2014 (UTC)
 * (mother) Alexandra Zakrzewska... - In modern Russian sources she features as Yelena Andreyevna Zakrevskaya. Nekrasov in his autobiography maintained she came from a noble Polish family (and several XIX sources reiterated this), but official metrics tell another story: her father was a Ukrainian landlord and state official. Both versions are to be mentioned, of course.
 * Though his patron poet Vasily Zhukovsky expressed a favorable opinion of the beginner's work... - Sources inform me that Zhukovsky was less then impressed. It was him who suggested that (since the process of the publishing at that point couldn’t be reversed) the young man should hide beneath the initials, so as not to be ashamed of himself later.
 * Ironically, Nekrasov joined the staff of Отечественные Записки (Notes of the Fatherland) under his critic Belinsky, and became close friends with the critic. - Belinsky has never been Nekrasov’s ‘boss’: both were ‘under’ Andrey Krayevsky. Ironically indeed, Nekrasov, a freelancer, was ‘making without an effort up to 700 rubles per month, while Belinsky, who did a lot more work and was bound by a contract, received just 450’ - if Nekrasov’s autobiographical sketches are to be believed, that is. (Having found no independent corroboration for this extraordinary claim, I omit it.)
 * Soon Belinsky recognized Nekrasov's talent, and promoted him to position as a junior editor. - Nothing of the sort happened, Belinsky just wasn’t in a position to do this. As for Krayevsky, he was exploiting Nekrasov’s talents (in the early 40s, mostly graphomaniac) mercilessly - without any promotion in mind.
 * From 1843-46 Nekrasov edited various anthologies for the magazine, one of which, "A Petersburg Collection," included Dostoyevsky's first novel, Poor Folk. - There were three of them, but none had any formal bearing to the magazine. It was Nekrasov himself who compiled, edited and published these books - much to the delight of Belinsky who recognised a great entrepreneur in the young man and advised him to put his ‘organisational’ talents to better use.
 * Friends paid for the surgery... - Having found not a single mention of any of the friends’ financial involvement, I drop this detail, at least for a while.
 * (Legacy section) During his time, Nekrasov was best remembered as Fyodor Dostoyevsky's first editor, in 1845, and the long-standing publisher of Sovremennik... - Yes, but also, after his first collection The Poems by N.A.Nekrasov came out in October 1856, he instantly became the number one poet in Russia and haven’t lost this status, not in his lifetime. In fact, Nekrasov’s extraordinary popularity was, apparently the only reason why the authoritis were so lenient towards him and Sovremennik... Besides, has he been ever remembered at all for having been Dostoyevsky’s first editor? I doubt this - although to find a well-sourced proof that he wasn’t, would be an insurmountable task, for me, anyway))