Princess Tarakanova and Princess Vladimirskaya

Andrew Caves (PI Melnikov) was born in Nizhny Novgorod in a noble family. After school he studied at the Nizhny Novgorod verbal faculty of Kazan University. He worked as a teacher in the province of Perm, Perm, Nizhny Novgorod. Many traveled the Ural region, visited factories, marinas, village. In 1839, in the journal "Notes of the Fatherland," published his first literary experience. Living in the Nizhny Novgorod region, engaged in historical and natural history research and writing on the subject of the article. In 1852, his position at Petersburg perevodyatv official for special assignments minister of Internal Affairs, but most of the time he spends in Nizhny Novgorod or travels to Zavolzhye, doing history and life of the Old Believers. In! 852 in the journal "Moskovityanin" published (under a pseudonym) and the story has been published since 1857 under the name of Andrew Caves. In 1866 he resigns and moves to Moscow. In the 70s, artistic treating their historical and local history research, he wrote the novel "In the Woods" and then its sequel - the novel "In the Mountains". Writer died in 1883.