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Nikolai Semyonovich Mukhin
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Nikolai Semyonovich Mukhin was a Mari poet, playwright, translator, and teacher, and a member of the Union of Writers of the USSR since 1934. He is considered one of the founders of national Mari poetry. He was a participant in World War I. He was born in the village of Olyk'yal in the Republic of Mari El into the family of a rural schoolteacher. After graduating from the Unzhin School in 1907, he began working as a rural teacher. During World War I he served at the front. In 1918 he returned to teaching and worked in a number of Mari schools.
Mukhin graduated from a pedagogical institute, taught the Mari language and literature, served as deputy head at the Morkinsky Pedagogical College, wrote textbooks on the Mari language, and translated many works into Mari for extracurricular reading. His literary activity began in 1906, and his first publications appeared in 1917. In 1919 his first book, the poem 'Signs of Life', was published.
Mukhin was known as a playwright, having written more than ten plays reflecting village life and the nature of his native region. In March 1937 he was arrested on false charges of participating in a counter-revolutionary Trotskyist, nationalist, diversionary-terrorist organization operating in the territory of the Mari ASSR, allegedly connected with the Finnish consulate in Leningrad and the Finnish mission in Moscow. He was repressed and executed on 11 November 1937. He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1956.
Date of birth
25 November 1890
Date of death
11 November 1937
Occupation
Poet