Alexei Chapygin
Aleksey Pavlovich Chapygin (17 October 1870 – 21 October 1937) was a Russian writer, and one of the founders of the Soviet historical novel.
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- Born
- 17 October 1870
- Birthplace
- Kargopolsky Uyezd, Olonets Governorate, Russian Empire
- Died
- 21 October 1937
- Place of death
- Leningrad, USSR
- Nationality
- Russian Empire · Soviet Union
- Occupation
- dramaturge · screenwriter · writer
- Languages
- Russian
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Aleksey Pavlovich Chapygin (17 October 1870 – 21 October 1937) was a Russian writer, and one of the founders of the Soviet historical novel.
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• Born — 17 October 1870 • Birthplace — Kargopolsky Uyezd, Olonets Governorate, Russian Empire • Died — 21 October 1937 • Place of death — Leningrad, USSR
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Chapygin was born in Kargopolsky Uyezd, Olonets Governorate. His northern peasant origins are reflected in his works. His first book of stories, Those Who Keep Aloof, and his novel The White Hermitage, describing northern life, were published before the Russian Revolution of 1917. He is best known for his two novels about peasant uprisings in the 17th century, Itinerant Folk (1934–37) and Stepan Razin (1926–27). Stepan Razin is considered a classic of Soviet literature. Chapygin drew upon Russian folklore for both the style of Stepan Razin and the positive and romanticized portrait of Razin himself. The Soviets excused this modernization of history as a justifiable polemic against the negative portrayal of Razin in 19th-century Russian literature. Stepan Razin was published in the magazine Red Virgin Soil.
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• Stepan Razin, Hutchinson International Authors, Ltd., London, 1946.
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1870
Alexei Chapygin born at Olonets Governorate.
1937
Alexei Chapygin died at Saint Petersburg.
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- 1.Columbia Dictionary of Modern European Literature, Bédé, Edgerton, Columbia University Press, 1980.
- 2.25 Years of Soviet Russian Literature (1918-1943), Gleb Struve, Taylor & Francis, 1944.
- 3.Red Virgin Soil: Soviet Literature in the 1920s, Robert A. Maguire, Northwestern University Press, 2000.
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