{{Short description|Russian writer and poet (1851–1927)}} {{Infobox person | name = Kazimir Barantsevich | image = Barancevich Kazimir.jpg | image_size = | caption = | native_name = Казимир Баранцевич | native_name_lang = ru | birth_date = {{Birth date|1851|5|22|df=yes}} | birth_place = Saint Petersburg, Russia | death_date = {{Death date and age|1927|7|26|1851|6|3|df=yes}} | death_place = Ulyanovka, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union | occupation = Writer | years_active = | spouse = | website = | awards = }}
'''Kazimir Stanislavovich Barantsevich''' ({{langx|ru|Казимир Станиславович Баранцевич}}; {{OldStyleDate|3 June|1851|22 May}} – 26 July 1927) was a Russian writer and poet, who also used the pseudonym '''Sarmat'''.<ref name="ЭСБЕ">{{Efron|Баранцевич, Казимир Станиславович}}</ref>
==Biography== Barantsevich was born in Saint Petersburg to Stanislav Martynovich Barantsevich, a descendant of the Polish aristocratic family belonging to the order of Leliwa, and his French wife, Julia Ivanovna ({{nee}} Lemann).<ref name="ЛЭ">[http://feb-web.ru/feb/litenc/encyclop/le1/le1-718a.htm?cmd=2&istext=1|title=Баранцевич, Казимир Станиславович] at the Soviet Literary Encyclopedia</ref>
He debuted in 1873 with the drama in verse ''Oprichnina'', a poetic remake of A.K. Tolstoy's ''Prince Serebryanny'' which was produced in October that year in Alexandrinsky Theatre.<ref name="ЭСБЕ"/>
In 1878, writing under the pseudonym Sarmat, he started to publish humorous sketches and short stories in the magazines ''Strekoza'', ''Oskolki'' and newspapers (''Russkiye Vedomosti'', among others). More serious work by Barantsevich started to appear in journals like ''Severny Vestnik'', ''Russky Vestnik'', ''Nablyudatel'' and ''Otechestvennye Zapiski''.<ref>Milyukov, Yury [http://az.lib.ru/b/barancewich_k_s/text_0020.shtml Баранцевич, Казимир Станиславович]. Russian Writers. Bibliographical Dictionary //Русские писатели. Биобиблиографический словарь в 2-х томах. Просвещение, 1990, том 1</ref> His first short story collection ''Pod gnyotom'' ('Oppressed') which the writer Nikolai Leykin had been instrumental in the publication of, came out in 1883 to considerable critical acclaim. It was followed by several more, including ''Porvannye struny'' ('Broken Strings', 1886), ''80 Stories by Sarmat'' (1891) and ''Kartinki zhizni'' ('Life's Sketches', 1892), as well as three novels: ''Raba'' ('Woman Slave', 1887), ''Semeyny ochag'' ('Family Hearth', 1893), ''Bortsy'' ('Wrestlers', 1896).<ref name="ЭСБЕ"/>
The Works by K.S. Barantsevich in 9 volumes were published by the Marks Publishing House in 1908–1911. In his lifetime Barantsevich published more than one hundred books, only one of them, a one-act play ''Pod zemlyoi'' ('Underground', 1918), after 1917. He died in Ulyanovka (formerly Sablino) in Leningrad Governorate, in 1927, and is interred in Volkovo Cemetery in Saint Petersburg.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://volkovka.ru/nekropol/view/item/id/464/catid/4 |title=Могила К. С. Баранцевича на Волковском кладбище |access-date=2016-09-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141222185732/http://volkovka.ru/nekropol/view/item/id/464/catid/4 |archive-date=2014-12-22 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Legacy== Barantsevich's novels, highlighting the life of people from Russian lower middle classes, leading unspeakably dreary, aimless and lonesome existence on the outskirts of Saint Petersburg, earned him the reputation of the leading purveyor of 'social pessimism' in the Russian literature of the late 19th century. Nikolai Mikhaylovsky, though, praised Barantsevich as a true master for depicting human loneliness, quite able to "rise to the peaks of true art." Anton Chekhov considered his worldview 'limited' but still, in 1900 suggested him as a candidate for the Honourable Academics.<ref>Kazimir Barantsevich at the Russian Writers Biographical Dictionary // Муратов А. Б. Баранцевич, Казимир Станиславович // Русские писатели. 1800-1917. Биографический словарь / Под ред. П. А. Николаева. — М.: Советская энциклопедия, 1989. — Т. 1. — С. 155. — 672 с.</ref>
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