Isaac Babel

Died in 1940

Isaac Babel was born on 13 July 1894 in Odessa, into a family of Jewish merchants, and spent his childhood in Mykolaiv; his family survived the pogrom of 1905, hidden by Christian neighbours. Gorky published his first texts in 1916. In 1920 he joined the First Cavalry Army as a war correspondent, under the Russian name of Kirill Lyutov. Arrested on 15 May 1939 and tortured, he was shot in Moscow on 27 January 1940; his seized archives disappeared without a trace. Rehabilitated in 1954, he was long reputed to have died on another date, and the true one was not known until the end of the century.

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Short storiesRed CavalryКонарміяIsaac Babel · 1926Literature