Alexander Serafimovich

Alexander Serafimovich, whose real name was Alexander Popov (1863-1949), was born in a Don Cossack stanitsa, where his father was treasurer of a regiment. A student of physics and mathematics in Saint Petersburg, he was arrested with Alexander Ulyanov, Lenin's elder brother, and exiled to the province of Arkhangelsk, where he wrote his first story. From 1926 to 1929 he edited the journal Oktiabr, which published Sholokhov's first novel, received the Stalin Prize in 1943 and died in Moscow on 19 January 1949.

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• NovelThe Iron FloodЖелезный потокAlexander Serafimovich · 1924LiteraturePublic domain