Alexander Georgievich Malyshkin

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Alexander Georgievich Malyshkin ( Russian Александр Георгиевич Малышкин ; born March 9 . Jul / 21st March  1892 greg. In Bogorodskoje , Ujesd Mokshan , Penza province , † 3. August 1938 in Moscow ) was a Russian writer.

Life

Malyshkin was the son of farmers. From 1913 he published poems mainly concerned with life in the provinces. He studied in Petrograd and served from 1916 as a second lieutenant in the Black Sea Fleet . He was a participant in the political-revolutionary events of 1917 and was then commander of a sailor unit. He used the 1930s to write his unfinished novel The Thirteenth Winter (Ljudi is sacholustja), the leitmotif of which is the change in consciousness of broad sections of the population in the course of collectivization and industrialization in Russia.

Works

  • The Fall of Dair (1923)
  • One night at Krivoy Rog (1926)
  • Sevastopol (1931)
  • The thirteenth winter (1938)

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