Mikhail Zoshchenko

Mikhail Zoshchenko (1894-1958), son of a mosaic painter, entered the faculty of law in Saint Petersburg but could not complete his studies, for lack of money. Enlisted in 1914, he was wounded and decorated several times during the Great War, then served briefly in the Red Army in 1919. From 1921 he belonged to the literary group of the Serapion Brothers. Denounced in 1946 by a resolution of the Central Committee, he afterwards lived on translations. He died on 22 July 1958.

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• Short storiesГолубая книгаMikhail Zoshchenko · 1935not translated into EnglishLiterature