Georgi Konstantinowitsch Nikiforow

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Georgi Konstantinowitsch Nikiforow (1938)

Georgy Nikiforov ( Russian Георгий Константинович Никифоров ; born May 26 . Jul / 7. June  1884 greg. In Saratov , † 2. April 1938 in Leningrad ) was a Soviet poet, playwright and novelist. Nikiforow became famous for his novel At the Lantern ( У фонаря , 1927).

Georgi Nikiforow comes from a working class family. After finishing school he became a lathe operator at the age of 13 and worked in a car factory in Tambov until the revolution . In Tambov, Nikiforov joined the revolutionary student movements and took part in the December uprisings in Moscow in 1905 . As a result of these riots, he was arrested. After his release he worked as a lathe operator, porter and projectionist.

From 1914 to 1923 Nikiforov worked in Chelyabinsk . There he joined the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in 1917 and took part in the civil war. From 1918 Nikiforov started in the journals Krasny trud ( Красный труд ) Priuralski bolshevik ( Приуральский большевик ) as well as in the newspaper Sovietskaya Pravda ( Советская правда ) poems to be published. After a trip to Moscow, he began to take a serious look at writing. From the mid-1920s, Nikiforov published several short stories and novels that mainly contained revolutionary topics. Nikiforov was a member of the authors' associations "Kuznitsa" and "Oktyabr".

Georgi Nikiforov was arrested in 1937 in the course of the Stalinist terror and shot in captivity in 1938. In 1956 he was posthumously rehabilitated.

Works (selection)

  • Sedyje dni ( Седые дни , 1925)
  • U fonarja ( У фонаря , 1927)
  • Stepanida ( Степанида , 1927)
  • Schenschtschina ( Женщина , 1929)
  • Wstretschny weter ( Встречный ветер , 1930)
  • Jedinstvo ( Единство , 1933)
  • Mastera ( Мастера , 1935–37)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Leningradski martirolog: 1937-1938 Retrieved November 24, 2010
  2. ↑ a b Article in the Great Encyclopedic Dictionary. Retrieved November 24, 2010
  3. ↑ Article Georgi Konstantinowitsch Nikiforow in the Great Soviet Encyclopedia (BSE) , 3rd edition 1969–1978 (Russian)http: //vorlage_gse.test/1%3D081728~2a%3D~2b%3DGeorgi%20Konstantinowitsch%20Nikiforow
  4. ↑ Biography in the Kratkaja literaturnaja enziklopedija.Retrieved on November 24, 2010
  5. ↑ a b c Biography on Enziklopedija Chelyabinsk.Retrieved November 24, 2010
  6. ↑ Biography on Biografija.ru.Retrieved November 24, 2010
personal data
SURNAME Nikiforow, Georgi Konstantinowitsch
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nikiforov, Georgy Konstantinovich; Никифоров, Георгий Константинович (Russian spelling)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Soviet poet, playwright and prose writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1884
PLACE OF BIRTH Saratov
DATE OF DEATH April 2, 1938
Place of death Leningrad