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Konstantin Aleksandrovich Fedin
Константин Федин
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24 February 1892 - 15 July 1977
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Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin was born on February 24 (12), 1892 in Saratov, in the family of the owner of a writing shop. He studied at a commercial school in Saratov, then in Kozlov. In 1911 he entered the Moscow Commercial Institute. In 1914, he went to Germany to study German, where he was overtaken by the outbreak of the World War. He was interned and returned home only in 1918. He worked in Moscow in the People’s Commissariat for Human Rights, then in Syzran – he was an editor and journalist.
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Konstantin Alexandrovich Fedin was born on February 24 (12), 1892 in Saratov, in the family of the owner of a writing shop. He studied at a commercial school in Saratov, then in Kozlov. In 1911 he entered the Moscow Commercial Institute. In 1914, he went to Germany to study German, where he was overtaken by the outbreak of the World War. He was interned and returned home only in 1918. He worked in Moscow in the People’s Commissariat for Human Rights, then in Syzran – he was an editor and journalist. K.A. Fedin began literary activity in 1913-14, and in Syzran he wrote several stories. He fought in the Civil War and was a political worker. Arriving in 1920 in Petrograd, he became close to members of the literary association Serapionov brothers. In 1923, the debut prose collection of the writer “The Wasteland” (1923) was published. K. A. Fedin is the author of the highly appreciated M. Gorky novel “Cities and Years”, stories about the peasantry “Men” (1926), “Transvaal” (1927), novels “Brothers” (1928), “The Abduction of Europe” (1935), “Arcturus Sanatorium” (1940), books of memoirs “Eternal Satellites”. He took an active part in the creation of the Union of Writers of the USSR. As a correspondent "Izvestia" was present at the Nuremberg trial. In 1945, Fedin published the novel “First Joys”, continued by “Extraordinary Summer” (1949) and “The Bonfire” (published during the 1960s and unfinished). Fedin was elected academician of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR (1956), first secretary and chairman of the joint venture of the USSR (1959-1977). In 1967, K. A. Fedin was awarded the title of Hero of Socialist Labor. Winner of the Stalin Prize and two Orders of the Red Banner of Labor.