s Gogolem, published 1890 [written in 1830s and 1840s]); Memoirs (Vospominaniya, 1856, translated as A Russian Schoolboy), and Collecting Butterflies (Sobiranie babochek, 1858). His fairy tale The Scarlet Flower was adapted into an animated feature film in the Soviet Union in 1952. Family Aksakov married Olga Semyonovna Zaplatina who was the daughter of Major General Semyon Grigorievich Zaplatina and a captured Turkish woman. They had four sons (Konstantin, Gregory, Ivan and Mikhail) and seven daughters (Vera, Olga, Nadezhda, Anna, Lyubov, Maria, and Sophia). English translations A Russian Schoolboy, E. Arnold, London, 1917, tr. by J. D. Duff. from Archive.org A Russian Gentleman, E. Arnold, London, 1917, tr. by J. D. Duff. from Archive.org The Family Chronicle, E. P. Dutton & Co., New York, 1961, tr. by M. C. Beverley. References Further reading . Churkin A. The memoir and autobiographical prose of S. T. Aksakov, problems of poetics. Thesis. in Russian External links 1791 births 1859 deaths Writers from Ufa Male writers from the Russian Empire Memoirists from the Russian Empire Corresponding members of the Saint Petersburg Academy of Sciences Nobility from the Russian Empire Burials at Novodevichy Cemetery 19th-century novelists from the Russian Empire 19th-century male writers from the Russian Empire