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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin
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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin – a Russian Soviet writer and journalist. From childhood he was passionate about writing. In 1911 he entered the Moscow Commercial Institute. His first publications date back to 1913 — satirical 'sketches' in Novy Satirikon.
In the spring of 1914, having completed the 3rd year at the institute, he went to Germany to improve his German, where he was caught by the First World War. Until 1918 he lived in Germany as a civilian internee, working as an actor in the city theatres of Zittau and Görlitz. In September 1918 he returned to Moscow and served in the People's Commissariat for Education (Narkompros).
In 1919 he lived in Syzran, worked as secretary of the city executive committee, and was editor of the magazine Otklyki and the newspaper Syzransky Kommunar. In 1921 he joined the Petrograd literary group the Serapion Brothers. Fedin's first published book was the short story collection Pustyr (1923). Fedin gained prominence with the novel Cities and Years (1924) about the path of the intelligentsia during the Revolution. From 1959 to 1971 he held the post of secretary of the Union of Soviet Writers, and from 1971 to 1977 he was chairman of the board of the Union of Soviet Writers. He died in 1977 and was buried in Moscow at the Novodevichy Cemetery.
Date of birth
24 February 1892
Date of death
15 July 1977
Occupation
Writer