Dmitri Andreevich Furmanov

Dmitri Andreevich Furmanov, portrayed by Sergei Malyutin (1922)

Dmitry Andreyevich Furmanov ( Russian Дмитрий Андреевич Фурманов ., Scientific transliteration Dmitry Furmanov Andreevič ; born October 26, ^jul. / 7. November 1891 ^greg. In Sereda [since 1941: Furmanov]; † 15. March 1926 in Moscow ) was a Soviet writer and red commissioner during the Russian Civil War.

Furmanov, who spent his school days in Ivanovo-Voznesensk , began studying law at Moscow University in September 1912, which he soon gave up in favor of a historical-philological one. In 1912 Furmanov's first poems appeared in the newspaper Ivanovsky listok . In 1914, after the outbreak of war, Furmanov enrolled in courses of the Red Cross , where he met his future wife Anna Nikitichna Steschenko . In 1917 he joined the Social Revolutionaries and at the same time became secretary of the revolutionary staff of Ivanovo, where he returned during the war. In 1918 Furmanov joined the Bolsheviks and married Anna Steschenko, in 1919 he first came into contact with Vasily Ivanovich Tschapajew and became commissioner of the 25th Rifle Division , which was led by Chapayev during the Russian Civil War . Chapayev fell the same year. In 1920 Furmanov was delegated to Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan, where he took part in battles against the White Army . Since 1920 stories and plays by him have appeared regularly, which were mainly printed in Soviet magazines. One of its main proponents was Maxim Gorky , with whom Furmanov was on friendly terms. In 1923 work began on Furmanov's main work, the novel Tschapajew , which appeared in a first version in Moscow in the same year and condensed Furmanov's experiences from his civil war under Tschapajew's leadership. A lengthy and fruitful exchange of ideas with Isaak Babel led to the idea of making a film of Chapayev . Furmanov's untimely death in 1926, caused by meningitis , prevented him from seeing the 1934 film.

Furmanow is the namesake of the Dmitriy Furmanov class , an inland ship series built in the GDR for the Soviet Union .

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SURNAME	Furmanov, Dmitri Andreevich
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Фурманов, Дмитрий Андреевич (Russian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	soviet writer
DATE OF BIRTH	November 7, 1891
PLACE OF BIRTH	Furmanow (city) , then: Sereda
DATE OF DEATH	March 15, 1926
Place of death	Moscow