Vladimir Kirshon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Vladimir Kirshon

Soviet playwright

Date of Birth: 06-Aug-1902

Place of Birth: Nalchik, Kabardino-Balkar Republic, Russia

Date of Death: 28-Jul-1938

Profession: writer, playwright, librettist

Zodiac Sign: Leo


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About Vladimir Kirshon

  • Vladimir Mikhailovich Kirshon (Russian: ?????´??? ????´?????? ?????´?) (August 19 [O.S.
  • August 6] 1902 - July 28, 1938) was a Soviet playwright. Born in Nalchik in the Caucasus into the family of a lawyer, Kirshon served in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and in 1920 joined the Communist Party, which sent him to the Sverdlov Communist University.
  • As a young idealist, he was upset by the New Economic Policy, and this is reflected in his early plays.
  • He was an organizer of the Association of Proletarian Writers in Rostov-on-Don and in the North Caucasus, and from 1925 was one of the secretaries of the Russian Association of Proletarian Writers (RAPP) in Moscow.
  • He was among the most radical literary functionaries of the day, and was one of the most relentless persecutors of Mikhail Bulgakov.
  • His ideological fervor recommended him to Joseph Stalin, to whom he sent his work for approval.
  • "When he was in favour, he could do no wrong: 'Publish immediately,' Stalin scrawled on Kirshon's latest article when returning it to Pravda's editor."His early plays Konstantin Terekhin (1926) and Rel'sy gudyat (The rails are humming, 1927) "caused a sensation," but Khleb (Bread, 1931) "had but an ephemeral success." His later Chudesny splav (The miraculous alloy, 1934) was still popular in the 1960s.
  • At the beginning of 1937, however, Kirshon fell out of favor due to his close association with Leopold Averbakh, former head of RAPP and brother-in-law of Genrikh Yagoda.
  • At a public meeting he was relentlessly attacked by Vsevolod Vishnevsky for associating with an "enemy of the people" and criticizing decisions of the Politburo; he attempted to defend himself, but was expelled from the Party and the Writers' Union and soon disappeared from Moscow.
  • In August 1937 he was arrested along with other former RAPP leaders as Trotsky sympathizers, and the next year he was executed at Butyrka prison in Moscow.
  • He was posthumously rehabilitated in 1955 and his plays performed again.

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