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Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
About museum
Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky – a Russian Soviet writer, screenwriter and educator, journalist, war correspondent and translator. Konstantin Paustovsky was born in Moscow, and six years later his family moved to Kyiv. He enrolled in a Kyiv gymnasium, where he began to write. He published his first story, "On the Water", in 1912. From 1913 to 1929 Paustovsky was involved in various activities: he worked as a tram conductor, a medical orderly, a teacher and a journalist, served as a war correspondent, and actively published in newspapers and magazines.
Paustovsky gained wide recognition in 1932 after the publication of his novella "Kara-Bugaz". During the Great Patriotic War he continued to write and worked as a war correspondent. From the mid-1950s he achieved international fame. In his later years Paustovsky worked on the autobiographical work "The Story of a Life". Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky died on July 14, 1968 and was buried in Tarusa, Kaluga Oblast.
Музеи, посвящённые персоне
Date of birth
31 May 1892
Date of death
14 July 1968
Occupation
Writer