Vsevolod Ivanov

Vsevolod Vyacheslavovich Ivanov, Russian writer (Lebyazhe, Semipalatinsk Governorate, today Aqqu, Kazakhstan, February 24, 1895 – Moscow, August 15, 1963). Poorly educated immigrant from Siberia in the book. group of Serapion's brothers, participation in construction. war provided material for most of the early narratives: Partizani (Partizany, 1921), Oklopni vlak 14–69 (Bronepoezd 14–69, 1922). Starting sometimes from the motif of the Wild West, he created a model of a cruel, impulsive, ethnically diverse Russian. of the "far east" (the novella Dijete - Ditë, 1922), sometimes mysterious (Vozvraščenie Buddy, 1923), who knows how to defy Bolshevik voluntarism (Habu, 1925). The collection The Secret of the Secret (Tajnoe tajnyh, 1927), with its emphasis on subconscious motivations, met with resistance from party critics. In the 1930s, Ivanov submitted to socialist norms. realism, but the posthumously published novels Užginskij Kremlj (Užginskij Kreml', 1981) and U (1988), as "experimental prose" with elements of parody and mystification, testified to the continuity of the poetics of the "Serapionians".