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Alexey Novikov-Priboy
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Alexey Silych Novikov-Priboy (real name — Alexey Silantyevich Novikov) was a Russian maritime writer. He was born on 12 (24) March 1877 in the village of Matveyevskoye in the Tambov Governorate into a peasant family. At the age of twenty-two he was conscripted for military service and voluntarily joined the navy. From 1899 to 1906 he served as a sailor in the Baltic Fleet. In 1903 the future writer was arrested for revolutionary propaganda and was then transferred to the Pacific Fleet. He took part in the Battle of Tsushima and was taken prisoner by the Japanese.
After returning from captivity in 1906, Novikov wrote two essays about the Battle of Tsushima under the pseudonym A. Zatyorty. In 1913, after an amnesty, he returned to Russia. During World War I he worked as a medical orderly on zemstvo medical trains. After the Revolution Novikov-Priboy was able to publish, and his novellas 'The Sea Calls', 'Submariners', 'A Haphazard Voyage' and 'A Woman at Sea' regularly appeared in print.
Novikov-Priboy's best-known work became the historical epic 'Tsushima', written in 1932–1935. During the Great Patriotic War (World War II) he wrote articles and essays about sailors and worked on the novel 'Captain 1st Rank', which remained unfinished. Alexey Silych Novikov-Priboy died in Moscow on 29 April 1944 and was buried at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Date of birth
24 March 1877
Date of death
29 April 1944
Occupation
Writer