Pyotr Pavlenko

Born July 11, 1899· Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire [now Russia]

† Died June 16, 1951

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Born in Saint Peterburg to an office-worker father, Pavlenko attended Baku Polytechnic in 1919-20 before entering Red-Army political work that later extended into Transcaucasia. After a stint with the Soviet trade delegation in Turkey (1924-27) he began publishing in 28, producing short stories and essays focused on the non-Soviet East, and joined the Pereval literary circle, where his novella The… Read more

Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources