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Saint Petersburg

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, Russian Empire

Russian Empire

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—February 28, 1951, Moscow

Moscow

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, USSR) was a Soviet dramatist and prose writer.

He was born in 1900 in Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg

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 and educated at a Petersburg gymnasium. During World War I

World War I

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 he enrolled in Baltic Fleet

Baltic Fleet

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 as sea cadet. He participated in the militant rebellion in Petrograd in 1917, in battles of the Russian Civil War

Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party war that occurred within the former Russian Empire after the Russian provisional government collapsed to the Soviets, under the domination of the Bolshevik party. Soviet forces first assumed power in Petrograd The Russian Civil War (1917–1923) was a...

 as machine gunner in the 1st Cavalry Army

1st Cavalry Army

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; he worked as political agitator attached to Black Sea and Baltic fronts. Later he became an editor of Krasnoflotets magazine. He battled at the fronts of Winter War

Winter War

The Winter War was a military conflict between the Soviet Union and Finland. It began with a Soviet offensive on 30 November 1939 – three months after the start of World War II and the Soviet invasion of Poland – and ended on 13 March 1940 with the Moscow Peace Treaty...

 and German-Soviet War, worked as war correspondent for Pravda

Pravda

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newspaper. Since 1944 he worked as editor of Znamya

Znamya

Znamya is a Russian monthly magazine, which was established in Moscow in 1931. In 1931-1932, the magazine was published under the name of Lokaf...

magazine.

His first works were published in 1920. In 1929 his play The First Horse Army, which celebrated Marshal Semyon Budyonny

Semyon Budyonny

Semyon Mikhailovich Budyonny , sometimes transliterated as Budennyj, Budyonnyy, Budennii, Budenny, Budyoni, Budyenny, or Budenny, was a Soviet cavalryman, military commander, politician and a close ally of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin.-Early life:...

's Rostov

Rostov

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 campaign during the civil war, was published. In 1930s he wrote many plays, including We are from Kronstadt

Kronstadt

Kronstadt , also spelled Kronshtadt, Cronstadt |crown]]" and Stadt for "city"); is a municipal town in Kronshtadtsky District of the federal city of St. Petersburg, Russia, located on Kotlin Island, west of Saint Petersburg proper near the head of the Gulf of Finland. Population: It is also...

, Last decisive, and his most famous play Optimistic Tragedy (1934). In 1941, Vishnevsky was awarded the Stalin Prize.

During the German-Soviet War he participated in the defence of Leningrad

Siege of Leningrad

The Siege of Leningrad, also known as the Leningrad Blockade was a prolonged military operation resulting from the failure of the German Army Group North to capture Leningrad, now known as Saint Petersburg, in the Eastern Front theatre of World War II. It started on 8 September 1941, when the last...

. He died in Moscow in 1951.

Works

• The First Horse Army
• Optimistic Tragedy
• Last decisive
• We are from Kronstadt
• Unforgettable 1919
• Battle at West
• By the walls of Leningrad
• Sea spread wide
• We, Russian people

Sources

• Banham, Martin, ed. 1998. The Cambridge Guide to Theatre. Cambridge: Cambridge UP. 1173. ISBN 0521434378.