Photographers [Oo] Family & Nature | Leonid Andreyev, 1903-14

“Την πολιτεία τη φοβάμαι, μ’ αρέσουν η έρημη θάλασσα και το δάσος. Η ψυχή μου είναι τρυφερή και καλόβολη, και πάντα προσαρμόζεται στην εικόνα του μέρους όπου ζει, στη εικόνα των πραγμάτων που βλέπει και ακούει. Και πότε γίνεται μεγάλη, απέραντη και φωτεινή σαν τον νυχτερινό ουρανό πάνω από την έρημη θάλασσα, πότε σφίγγεται και γίνεται ένα κουβάρι, μεταλλάζει σε κύβο, απλώνεται σαν γκρίζος διάδρομος ανάμεσα σε τυφλούς πέτρινους τοίχους.”

Leonid Andreyev, Η κατάρα του θεριού, 1907 μτφ: Σταυρούλα Αργυροπούλου

Leonid Andreyev, Sunset at Vammasluu – Finland Leonid’s wife, Anna Andreyeva, Vammasluu

Leonid’s wife, Anna Andreyeva, Marseille, 1910 Leonid’s wife, Anna Andreyeva, Rome, 1914

Leonid and the Devils – Andreyev in front of copies he made of Goya sketches in his study at Vammasluu, 1910s

Leo Tolstoy said once: “Leonid Andreyev tries to frighten me, but I am not afraid.”

Anna Andreyeva Leonid Andreyev, The mysterious head, 1908-1914

Vadim Andreyev, 1909 Daniil Andreyev, 1912

Leonid Andreyev, In bed, 1911

Leonid Andreyev, 1908-1914 Savva Andreyev, 1908

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Andreyev’s three sons, island of Koivisto, 1913 Leonid Andreyev, 1908-1914

Savva Andreyev,1910-1912 Children on the grass, 1907-1908

Savva and Véra Andreyeva Leonid Andreyev and his second wife, Anna, in the garden of his home in Finland

“I want to be the apostle of self destruction. I want my book to affect man’s reason, his emotions, his nerves, his whole animal nature. I should like my book to make people turn pale with horror as they read it, to affect them like a drug, like a terrifying dream, to drive them mad, to make them curse and hate me but still to read me.”

Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Andreyev, 1910 Leonid Andreyev, Vammasluu, 1910

Finland, 1908-1914

Leonid Andreyev, Filip Dobrov & Daniil Andreyev at Vammasluu, 1912 Leonid Andreyev, Self-portrait, 1910

Leonid Andreyev, 1910 / A self-portait taken in a mirrow, showing the camera he used for his earliest stereoscopic photographs, 1903

Leonid Nikolaievich Andreyev (1871-1919) 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. He was born in the Oryol province of Russia, which is about 200 miles southwest of Moscow. In 1917 he moved to Finland, where he finished out his days mostly alone.