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Sergey Nikolaevich Sergeev-Tsensky
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Sergey Nikolaevich Sergeev-Tsensky (pseudonym; real surname – Sergeev) was a Russian Soviet writer, an academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1943). He was born on 18 (30) September 1875 in the village of Babino, Tambov Governorate, into a teacher's family. From the age of five he lived in Tambov, graduated from the district school and entered the Ekaterininsky Teacher's Institute, where he began to write poetry. In 1892 his first publication appeared in the "Tambov Provincial Gazette" — the story "Kochetovskaya Dam". During this period he added the pseudonym "Tsensky" to his surname, associated with the Tsna River where his childhood was spent.
In 1895 Sergeev-Tsensky graduated with honors from the Hlukhiv Teacher's Institute and completed his military service in the 19th Kostroma Infantry Regiment, rising to the rank of praporshchik (ensign). After his discharge he worked as a teacher until 1904, and then took part in the Russo-Japanese War, after which he was demobilized in 1905. In 1906 Sergeev-Tsensky purchased a plot of land in Alushta, and literature became his main profession. The outbreak of the First World War interrupted his literary activity: the writer was mobilized to the headquarters of a militia detachment in Sevastopol, and then transferred to a reserve regiment. Due to illness Sergeev-Tsensky was discharged to the reserve with the rank of poruchik (lieutenant) in 1915.
After the First World War Sergeev-Tsensky lived in Crimea. In 1919 he married Khristina Mikhailovna Naumova. During the Great Patriotic War he evacuated with his wife to Kuybyshev, and then to Alma-Ata. In 1943 he was elected a full member of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philological Sciences for his works on Russian classics. In 1944 he returned to Alushta. Sergey Nikolaevich Sergeev-Tsensky died on 3 December 1958 and was buried on the grounds of his house-museum in Alushta.
Date of birth
30 September 1875
Date of death
03 December 1958
Occupation
Writer