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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev was a Russian playwright, novelist and short-story writer. He is one of the most talented and prolific representatives of the Silver Age period in Russian history. Andreyev's style combines elements of realist, naturalist and symbolist schools in literature. Born in the Oryol province of Russia within a middle class family, Andreyev originally studied law in Moscow and in Saint Petersburg. He became police-court reporter for a Moscow daily, performing the routine of his humble calling without attracting any particular attention. At this time he wrote poetry and made a few efforts to publish it but was refused by most publishers. In 1898 his first short story, Bargamot and Garaska , was published in the Kurier newspaper in Moscow. This story came to the attention of the burgeoning Maxim Gorky who recommended that Andreyev concentrate on his literary work

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