GARSHIN, VSEVOLOD MIKHAILOVICH (1855 1888), Russian author, was born in the government of Ekaterino slav in Feb. 1855, the son of a retired army officer. From his childhood he had a nervous temperament, and in 1872 he was put under restraint for a year. In 1874 he entered the High School of Mines at St. Petersburg (now Leningrad), but on the out break of the Russo-Turkish War (1877) he enlisted as a private in an infantry regiment. Wounded in Aug. 1878 he was invalided home; from that time he suffered from frequent attacks of mel ancholia, and in 1887 he tried to commit suicide by throwing him self down some stone steps, broke his leg, and died in a hospital on March 24, 1888. Many of his best known stories, The Signal (1912) ; The Coward, Mad Love, or An Artist's Dream (1889) ; The Red Flower (1883) ; Attalea Princeps and That which was Not have been translated into English. His Four Days, written while he was lying wounded at Kharkov, created a great sensation.