Panteleimon Romanov
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Panteleimon Sergeyevich Romanov was a Russian/Soviet writer.
. After completing his law studies at Moscow State University
, he devoted himself to literature. He published his first story in 1911, but had little success before the Russian Revolution (1917).
He became one of the best known Soviet authors of the 1920s and 30s. He won most of his fame with short satirical stories exposing the ignorance, inefficiency and cowardess of the new Soviet bureaucrats and their aides. He also devoted his attention to the sexual revolution of the 1920s, sometimes in works that were considered too graphic by contemporary standards, as in the story Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms (1926). He wrote novels in the epic manner, including Childhood (1926) and his five volume series Russia (1922–1936), dealing with rural life in prerevolutionary Russia.
Biography
Romanov was born into a gentry family in the village of Petrovskoe in what is now Tula OblastTula Oblast
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. After completing his law studies at Moscow State University
Moscow State University
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, he devoted himself to literature. He published his first story in 1911, but had little success before the Russian Revolution (1917).
He became one of the best known Soviet authors of the 1920s and 30s. He won most of his fame with short satirical stories exposing the ignorance, inefficiency and cowardess of the new Soviet bureaucrats and their aides. He also devoted his attention to the sexual revolution of the 1920s, sometimes in works that were considered too graphic by contemporary standards, as in the story Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms (1926). He wrote novels in the epic manner, including Childhood (1926) and his five volume series Russia (1922–1936), dealing with rural life in prerevolutionary Russia.
English translations
- Three Pairs of Silk Stockings, E. Benn Limited, London, 1931.
- Diary of a Soviet Marriage, Hyperion Press, 1975.
- On the Volga and Other Stories, Hyperion Press, 1978.
- Without Bird-Cherry Blossoms, from Great Soviet Short Stories, Dell, 1991.