Zimmerman, Roman Emilievich

Zimmerman Roman Emilievich ( 1866 , Moscow - 1900 ) - economist, writer, wrote under the pseudonym Gvozdev.

Roman Emilievich Zimmerman
Date of Birth	1866 ( 1866 )
Place of Birth	Moscow
Date of death	1900 ( 1900 )
Citizenship	Russian empire
Occupation	economist, writer

Born in an intelligent merchant family. He studied at the Imperial Technical School, showed abilities in the natural sciences, especially chemistry, but, for circumstances not depending on him, did not finish the course and spent six years in the Irkutsk province . Having moved to Samara , he became a zealous employee of the initially “Samara Newspaper”, and then the “Samara Herald”. In the editorial office of the latter, he soon took a leading role and worked in it until the termination of the newspaper. According to his worldview, Zimmerman adjoined the so-called neo - Marxists .

He expressed his views on the historical fate of the Russian people and the future role of capitalism in Russia both in the leading articles of the Samara Herald and in a separate book: “Kulaks - usury; its socio-economic significance. ” IN AND. Lenin wrote a review of this book ^[1] , where he highly appreciated this work by Zimmerman. Zimmerman devoted a theoretical article to the theoretical substantiation of his views under the title: “On the issue of the teleological nature of the historical process”, published in the “ Scientific Review ” for 1898. In “ Russian Wealth ” for 1896 (No. 11), his story “The Substitute” was published , and in " Life " for 1899 - "Hunchback". Both stories present very interesting descriptions of episodes from the life of prisoners and exiled settlers in Siberia. Obituaries dedicated to Zimmermann testify that Russian literature has lost great power in it ^{[2] [3]} .