Personality in the history of Russian culture: the portrayer of ordinary life, the consolidator, the guardian (the 150th anniversary of birth and 60th anniversary of the death of N. D. Teleshov)

The article is devoted to the bright representative of Russian culture at the turn of the XIX-XX centuries N. D. Teleshova. Being a talented writer-realist, he entered the history of Russian literature as the organizer of the literary circle “Environment”, which became in the pre-revolutionary decades the consolidating element for the realistic, had great impact on cultural life in general. Teleshov was a fairly prominent figure in the post-revolutionary years. Remained in his native country, he did not turned to prose, he has completely devoted his life to the preservation of cultural heritage. As the guardian of Russian culture N. D. Teleshov were working for a quarter century as Director of the Museum of Art theater, as well as preparing a book of memoirs "Notes of a writer”. In his memoirs Teleshov was interested and objectively described the culture and art in the end of the XIX century and in the beginning of XX century and also daily life of pre-revolutionary Russia.