Ivan Goncharov

Ivan Goncharov (1812–1891) was born in Simbirsk, Russia, to a prosperous merchant family. He studied literature at Moscow University, entered the civil service, and lived a quiet, methodical, outwardly uneventful life that seemed almost designed to contrast with the magnificent indolence of his most famous creation. He served as a censor for the Russian government and traveled around the world aboard a Russian frigate, an experience he recorded in the travel memoir The Frigate Pallada. This author hub collects 1 work in the Canon Compass ranking, led by Oblomov.