Leonid Andreyev

Leonid Andreyev (1871-1919), born in Orel, studied law in Saint Petersburg and Moscow and at first lived in straitened circumstances. A court reporter for a Moscow newspaper, he was encouraged by Gorky, who introduced him into literary circles. His first collection of stories, in 1901, met with immediate success. He settled in Finland and remained there after the October Revolution, hostile to the Bolsheviks. He died there of heart failure on 12 September 1919.

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