Muizhel, Viktor

Muizhel’, Viktor Vasil’evich 

Born July 18 (30), 1880, in the village of Uza, Pskov Province; died Feb. 3, 1924, in Leningrad. Russian author.

Muizhel’ was the son of a minor official. His first published work appeared in 1903. At the heart of Muizhel’s many short stories and novellas and of his novel The Year (1911) is the Russian countryside. He was influenced by Narodnik (Populist) ideology and depicted peasant unrest as something spontaneous and unrelated to general social processes. Some of Muizhel’s works re-create scenes of a stagnant philistine way of life. After the October Revolution of 1917, Muizhel’ wrote short stories, novellas, and the play Spring Wind (1923).

WORKS

Sobr. soch, 11 vols., 2nd ed. St. Petersburg, 1911–12.
Poslednie rasskazy. Preface by P. Medvedev. Moscow-Leningrad, 1926.

REFERENCES

Pikkiev, I. “Bytopisatel’ russkoi derevni.” In the almanac Na beregakh Velikoi, book 10. Pskov, 1958.
Istoriia russkoi literatury kontsa XIX-nachala XX veka. Moscow-Leningrad, 1963. (Bibliographical handbook.)