Dmitry Ilyich Petrov (Biryuk) ( 1900 - 1977 ) - Russian Soviet writer.
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| Birth name | Dmitry Ilyich Petrov |
| Aliases | Biryuk |
| Date of Birth | October 18 (31), 1900 |
| Place of Birth | Anninskaya stanitsa, Khopersky okrug , Region Don Troops , Russian Empire |
| Date of death | February 2, 1977 (76 years old) |
| Place of death | Moscow , USSR |
| Citizenship |  the USSR |
| Occupation | prose writer |
| Genre | novel |
| Language of Works | Russian |
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Biography
He was born in a Cossack family in the village of Anninsky in the Khopersky District of the Don Region, where he spent his childhood and adolescence. The villages of Filonovskaya, Mikhailovskaya, the farm Lysogorsky, Uryupinsk are the writer’s native places, where he visited many times and created his works. It was here that the future writer fell in love with the Cossack song, a good word, learned to understand and appreciate the sharp humor and mocking mind of the stanitsa.
His childhood was bitter and orphaned. Mother died when he was 7 years old. Father, kind, but weak-willed, did little to raise his son. A love of reading instilled in his mother. By the age of 7, he already read and wrote independently. He began to study at school late, so he did not graduate from the stanitsa two-year school, designed for 5 years of study, only in 1915. Books were almost the main passion of the stanitsa teenager. Tales of Pushkin, stories and stories of Gogol, Leo Tolstoy left an indelible mark on his mind. Among the first works he read were also the novels of Mine Read and Fenimore Cooper.
Member of the Civil War. He studied at the Gorky Literary Institute. For the first time as a writer, he declared himself in 1925 with essays on a new village. It was first printed under the pseudonym Biryuk, adopted in honor of the maternal grandfather, whose last name was Biryukov. Then Petrov (Biryuk) began to sign [1] .
In 1932 he settled in Rostov-on-Don , where for a long time he worked in the publishing house as an editor. He created such works as: the trilogy “The Tale of the Cossacks”, “Wild Field”, “Kondrat Bulavin”, “Sons of the Don Steppes”, “Brothers Gruzinovs”, “Ivan Turchaninov”, “South on Fire”, “In the Face of the Motherland” [2] .
Creativity
- On Khopre (1934) - a novel.
- The legend of the Cossacks (Prince 1-3, 1935-1951) is a trilogy.
- Wild Field (Kondrat Bulavin, 1945) - a historical novel.
- Sons of the Don Steppes (1953) - historical novel.
- South on Fire (1957); In the face of the Motherland (1963) - a dilogy about the Civil War.
- Steppe Knights (1964) - historical novel.
- The Gruzinov Brothers (1969) is a historical novel.
Memory
In 2011, the Staroanninsky rural library was named after Dmitry Ilyich Petrov (Biryuk)
See also
- House of Petrov-Biryuk
Notes
- ↑ Cossack writer Dmitry Petrov (Biryuk) // Cossack Circle
- ↑ Famous compatriots // MKOU Staroanninsky secondary school of Novoanninsky district of the Volgograd region