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December 3, 1857, Berdichev, Kiev Governorate, Russian Empire - August 3, 1924, Bishopsbourne, England, Great Britain, real name: Theodore Joseph Konrad Korzhenevsky - English writer.
In 1861 Apollo Korzhenevsky was exiled to Vologda for his collaboration with the Polish rebels. His wife, Evelina Korzhenevskaya (Bobrovskaya), followed her husband with her four-year-old son.
In 1865, due to the illness of his wife, Apollo Korzhenevsky achieved a transfer to Chernigov. After moving in the same year, Joseph's mother died of consumption. Father and son moved first to Lvov, then to Krakow, where Apollo Korzhenevsky died in 1869, leaving 11-year-old Joseph an orphan. The boy was adopted into the family of Tadeusz Bobrowski, a maternal uncle.
Uncle took him to his place in Odessa, where the boy first saw the sea, which determined his fate. Also influenced by English and French adventure novels, Joseph wanted to become a sailor. In 1874, 17-year-old Joseph, with the consent of Bobrovsky, left for Marseille. In 1875-1877 he sailed on various ships, including smuggling weapons for the "Carlists", supporters of Don Carlos' enthronement to the Spanish throne.
In the early 1880s, Konrad moved to England. On various ships he was a sailor, second mate, in 1884 he passed the exam for the rank of first mate, and in 1886 he received a captain's certificate. In the same year he received British citizenship, officially changing his name to Joseph Conrad, and wrote the first story "Black Navigator".
In 1890, as captain of the steamer Rua de Belge, he sailed along the Congo River. During this trip, he fell ill with malaria and rheumatism, which forever undermined his health. African impressions would later form the basis of the story "Heart of Darkness".
In 1893, writer John Galsworthy boarded his ship Torrance in the port of Adelaide, and Konrad gave him the manuscript of his first novel, Olmeyer's Whim, to read.
In January 1894, Konrad returned to London, determined to end the naval service. Conrad's literary debut took place in 1895, when Olmeyer's Whim was published.
Konrad's popularity grew. In 1914, at the invitation of the Polish writer Jozef Retinger, he came to Krakow, from where he had to get out with difficulty after the outbreak of the First World War. Preparing to write a novel about Napoleon, The Expectation, in 1921, Konrad visited Corsica, and in 1923 he visited the United States. In 1924, Konrad refused the knighthood offered to him.
Throughout his life, Konrad continued his friendship with Galsworthy, which began aboard the Torrance. In addition, he struck up friendships with the critic Edward Garnett, writers Ford Madox Ford, Henry James, HG Wells, philosopher Bertrand Russell.
