KOROLENKO, VLADIMIR GALAKTIONOVICH (1853-1921), Russian novelist, was born at Zhitomir, in Volynia, on July 27, 1853. He studied in the school of agriculture at Mos cow, where he was arrested for addressing a collective petition to the director of the school. He started working in St. Petersburg as a proof-reader and journalist, but was arrested for his ad vanced social doctrines, and spent six years (1879-85), in exile in Siberia. On his return he settled in Nijni-Novgorod, and al most immediately published his story Makar's Dream (trans. 1916). From 1895 onwards he conducted the review, the Russian Empire. Korolenko wrote kindly stories of peasant life in the Ukraine, and in central Russia. Always a convinced radical and social reformer, he fought for the abolition of capital punish ment and of martial law. He died in Dec. 1921 in Poltava. His best known works are : Siberian Tales (1901) ; The Murmuring Forest (1886; Eng. trans. M. Fell, 1916) ; The Blind Musician (1886; Eng. trans. A. Delano, 2nd ed. 189o) ; Bad Company
(1886; Eng. trans. M. Fell, 1916) ; The Vagrant and Other Tales (trans. A. Delano, 1887, 2nd ed. 1896), and a delightful auto biographical record, History of my Contemporary (191o, 1922) (German translation by Rosa Luxemburg of vols. i. and ii. 1919). KORS R, a seaport of Denmark, in the amt (county) of the island of Zealand, 69 m. by rail W.S.W. of Copenhagen, on the east shore of the Great Belt. Pop. (193o), 9,728. A market town since the 14th century, KorsOr has ruins of an old fortified castle, on the south side of the channel, dating from the 14th and 17th centuries. The harbour, which is formed by a bay of the Baltic, has a depth throughout of 20 ft. It is the point of departure and arrival of the steam ferry to Nyborg on Fiinen, lying on the Esbjerg Fredericia and Copenhagen route. There is also regular communication by water with Kiel. The chief exports are fish, cereals, bacon; imports, petroleum and coal.