Tikhon Sakharovich Syomushkin
Tikhon Sacharowitsch Sjomuschkin ( Russian Тихон Захарович Сёмушкин * June 13 . Jul / 26. June 1900 greg. In Staraya Kutlja , Penza province , Russian Empire ; † 6. May 1970 in Moscow ) was a Soviet writer.
Life
Sjomuschkin, born the son of a carpenter, worked as a teacher in his youth and at the same time studied at the Faculty of Natural Sciences at Moscow University . He was particularly interested in the ethnography of the Nordic peoples, which led him to study in the Arctic in 1924 , where he lived with the Chukchi for several years . During this time he became the director of a boarding school there.
In 1930 Sjomuschkin went to Leningrad , where he worked with the ethnologist Wladimir Germanowitsch Bogoras (also Tan-Bogoras) a written language for the Chukchi people and at the same time a first textbook.
After his first literary publications, he became secretary of the magazine Der Soviet Norden . He found literary sources time and again in the far north of the Soviet Union, where he also wrote his first novel, Brand in der Polarnacht (approx. 1934/35), for which he received the Stalin Prize in 1948 .
In 1945 he went to Moscow after spending a total of eight years on the Chukchi Peninsula .
Works published in German
- Aiwam's adventure,
- Fire in the polar night
- Alitet goes to the mountains,
- In the land of the Chukchi
Source: German edition "Fire in the polar night", 1953 Verlag Kultur und Progress, Berlin
Individual evidence
- ^ Tikhon Sjomuschkin in Brief Literary Encyclopedia. Retrieved April 17, 2018 (Russian).
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Syomushkin, Tikhon Sakharovich |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Сёмушкин, Тихон Захарович (Russian) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | soviet writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1900 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Staraya Kutlja, Penza Governorate , Russian Empire |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 6, 1970 |
| Place of death | Moscow |