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The Islanders (Nikolai Leskov novel)
''The Islanders'' (Ostrovityane, Островитя′не) is a novel by Nikolai Leskov, first published in November–December 1866 issues of ''Otechestvennye Zapiski'', under the moniker M.Stebnitsky. In 1867 the novel came out as a separate edition in Saint Petersburg.
==Background==
Leskov started working upon the novel in autumn 1865 right after the ''Neglected People'', and finished in the early 1866. In it he started to investigate what he himself defined as "Saint Petersburg types," - this time taking as a sample the life of the two ethnic German families, the Norks and the Schultses, concentrating on the story of painter Istomin (who has the relations with Manichka Nork). The novel features Leskov's numerous commentaries upon the discussion concerning the development of fine arts that was going on in the Russian press in 1865 featuring clashes between the different sections of the Russian fine arts community, dealing mostly with the controversy surrounding the so-called "Riot of the 14" of the Imperial Academy of Arts when a group of artists, led by Ivan Kramskoi, refused to take part in the Golden medal competition as a protest against the Academy's refusal to credit the rise of the new realism in the Russian painting. The Russian press was strongly advised to ignore the theme and Leskov had to be very careful in defining his position which proved to be ambivalent: while supporting the demands for reforming the Academy (expressed by newspapers ''Golos'' and ''Vedomosti''), he was opposing the ''Sovremennik'' and ''Russkoye Slovo'' leftist authors (whom he tagged 'theoreticians') and promoted the idea of "religious and moral mission" of fine arts.〔
In his 1881 letter to Alexey Suvorin Leskov regretted what he called one of his "old mistakes", namely "a certain portrait likeness" one of his ''Islanders'' novel characters had to a certain real person. Whom did he mean exactly, scholars weren't sure: some said the prototype for Istomin (bearing in mind his capriciousness, tetchiness and womanizing) could have been Karl Bryullov, others pointed to Sergey Zaryanko (1818–1870), a once promising young painter who's squandered his potential by too much commercial work.〔
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