Pyotr Alekseevich Shiryaev (1886-1935) - Russian Soviet writer and translator.
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| Occupation | prose writer , translator |
| Language of Works | Russian |
Content
- 1 Biography
- 2 Creativity
- 3 Memory
- 4 notes
- 5 Links
Biography
Born on November 26 ( December 8 ), 1886 in the village of Uvarovo, Tambov province (now a city in the Tambov region). His father - Alexei Ivanovich Shiryaev - was a native of the poor Kirsanov bourgeoisie , Peter was the second child in the family and had seven brothers and sisters. [one]
By the time Shiryaev graduated from a village school, his father had become a prosperous merchant and managed to send his son to the Tambov real school, from where Peter was expelled for "unreliability" because of the unrest that began in the province. A participant in the revolutionary events of 1905 in Moscow, where he went to continue his education. Here he was arrested and imprisoned, served in prison companies for armed resistance during the arrest and was later exiled to Siberia . Having fled from exile, he lived in France , Italy , and Belgium .
After the February Revolution he returned to Russia. [2] During the Civil War, Shiryaev was an inspector of the Red Army in Tambov and Borisoglebsk .
He died of tuberculosis on May 25, 1935 in Moscow. He was buried at the Vagankovsky cemetery .
Creativity
The first publication of the writer - the story "Scum" - was published in the magazine "New World" in 1925. In the same year, his first book, Towards Barricades, was published. A number of works are associated with the Tambov region:
- “Liberated Waters” (1928) - a story about the establishment of Soviet power in Kirsanovsky district ,
- "Sad Comedy" (1929) - a novel about the raid of the Mammoth cavalry in 1919 on Kozlov and Tambov,
- “Fighters of the outskirts” - a story and an unfinished novel “Gulba” (both about “ Antonovism ”).
The most famous work of P. A. Shiryaev is the novel “The Grandson of Taglioni” [3] (1930).
The writer’s attention is concentrated mainly on the disclosure by the artistic means of the psychology of the average man under the conditions of the October Revolution and the Civil War .
Fluent in Italian, he translated works of Italian writers, including the book by Mario Sobrero “Banners and People” and a number of short stories by Papini, Borghese, Pirandello and others. [one]
Memory
- One of the streets of Uvarovo is named after the writer. [one]