Vasily Jan

Vasily Yan ( Russian Василий Ян ., Scientific transliteration Vasilij January , actually Vasily Grigorievich Jantschewezki , Russ. Василий Григорьевич Янчевецкий * December 23, 1874 ^jul. / 4. January  1875 ^greg. In Kiev , † 5 August 1954 in Zvenigorod ) was a Russian - Soviet writer of Ukrainian origin.

Life

His father was an educator and translator of Greek classics, and on his mother's side he is descended from an old Zaporozhian Cossack family . One of his ancestors fought in the Battle of Kunersdorf (1759) and was awarded a silver medal. Vasily Jan graduated from the Faculty of History and Philology in St. Petersburg in 1897. After years of wandering in Russia and in the Asian part of the later Soviet Union, he worked in the Russo-Japanese War in 1904 as a special correspondent for the SPA news agency (St. Petersburg Telegraph Agency) for the staff of the commander-in-chief of the Russian armed forces. After the war he returned to Central Asia, after which he worked for several years as a correspondent for the SPA in Istanbul and from 1918 in Russia in various professions. From 1923 he lived in Moscow as a writer and published mainly on historical topics.

Works (selection)

• "The Phoenician Ship"
• " Spartacus "
• "Robert Fulton"
• "The iron hammers in the Urals"
• "The fires on the burial mounds" (the incursion of Alexander of Macedonia into Central Asia)

The trilogy about the Mongol invasions consists of the following novels:

• " Genghis Khan " - 1939, was awarded a state prize
• " Batu Khan " - 1941
• "To the last sea"

In 1995, the trilogy appeared in the Aufbau-Verlag under the summarizing title Die Eroberer as a three-volume paperback edition.

Web links

• Literature by and about Wassili Jan in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

1. ^ Afterword in W. Jan: Dschingis-Khan , Gustav Kiepenheuer-Verlag, Weimar 1960, pages 386–387